EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 
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PLATE THE NINTH. 
Flowers. 
Fig. 1. Cupressus sempervirens. Cupressidea. Male 
catkin, long, composed of about twenty opposite bracteae, 
dilated at top into a scale, and having at bottom four glo- 
bular anthers, one-celled and sessile, as at a. 
Fig. 2. A bractea detached from the male catkin of the 
same, and seen from behind, with its four anthers opened. 
Fig. 3. The bottle-shape cupule of the same cut length- 
ways, and much magnified. 
a. The female flower; perianthium simple, adherent; 
stigma sessile. 
Fig. 4. The female catkin of the same. The orifices of 
the minute cupules are visible among the bractese. 
Fig. 5. Larix Europsea. Abietidece. A scale or bractea 
of the female catkin, having at its base two cupules. 
a. The two cupules, bottleshape. 
b. The scalelike peduncle supporting the cupules; these 
peduncles enlarge after flowering, much more than the 
bractea itself. 
Fig. 6. Hura crepitans. Euphorbiacew. A male flower 
detached from the catkin. 
a. The perianthium. 
b. Androphore thick, cylindrical, with two rows of an- 
thers in whirls. 
Fig. 7. Euphorbia Illyrica. Euphorbmeece. The many- 
flowered calathide. 
a. Involucrum. 
b. Female flower in the centre, formed of a pedicel led 
ovary, with three two-lobed stigmata. 
c. Male flowers several, composed of a single stamen, 
articulated upon a pedicell ; anthers twin. 
d. Filament jointed. 
Fig. 8. Hyacinthus cernuus. Asphodelece. Perigonium 
monosepalous, six-parted. 
Fig. 9. Ixia Chinensis. Iridece . Perigonium adherent, 
lobes spreading, stamens three, style three-cut. 
Fig. 10. Borrago officinalis. Boraginece. Calyx five- 
parted, open ; corolla wheel-like, five-parted, orifice of the 
tube having bosses, a; surrounding it. 
Fig. 11. Centranthus marinus. Valerianeod. The entire 
flower ; calyx adherent, limb rolled inwards, which be- 
comes a pappus after the flowering ; corolla tubular, spur- 
red, limb irregular; stamen one: stvle one. 
