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EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 
Fig. 11. Viola Rotbomagensis. Violacece. Magnified. 
Pistill surrounded with five stamens united by fringes, two 
of the stamens having each a basilary appendage; style 
turbinate; stigma globular, perforated, operculated. 
Fig. 12. Scutellaria alpina. Labiates. Pistill magnified, 
and cut longitudinally to show the insertion of the ovaries 
and style. 
a. Gynophore, which supports four ovaries. 
b. Nectary beaked. 
c. Style cut off. 
Fig. 13. Asphodelus annuus. Asphodelece. Stamens and 
pistills magnified. Stamens unequal, three long, three 
short, alternate; filaments fusiform, enlarged, and vaulted 
at their base. 
a. Anthers heartshape; stigma three-lobed. 
Fig. 14. Jatropha pandursefolia. Euphorbiacecc. Sta- 
mens of the male flowers, having at the base a nectary 
composed of five glands. 
a. Androphore divided into ten filaments, five long and 
five short. 
Fig. 15. Tamarix Gallica. Tamariscince. Stamen mag- 
nified. 
a. Anther. 
b. Filament dilated at bottom. 
Fig. 16. Ricinus inermis. Euphorbiacece. A part of the 
branched androphore, magnified. 
Fig. 17. Borrago laxiflora. Boraginea*. Stamen mag- 
nified, as seen sideways. 
a. Anther awlshape. 
b. Filament appendiculated. 
Fig. 18. Begonia dichotoma. Family doubtful. Stamen 
magnified, having the filament enlarged at the tip. 
a. Lobes of the anther two, adnate on the side, parallel,, 
distant. 
Fig. 19. Zygophyllum Morgsana. Rutacece. Stamen 
magnified; filament appendiculated at the base; appendix 
doubly toothed ; anther oval, vacillating. 
Fig. 20. Tradescantia Yirginica. Commelinece. Stamen 
magnified ; filament bearded at the base ; anther two-lobed, 
lobes kidneyshape, adnate laterally, cut transversely to 
show the two cells of each lobe. 
Fig. 21. Erica comosa. Ericinece . Stamen magnified, 
seen sideways ; anther having two basilary crests. 
Fig. 22. Mahernia pinnata. Tiliaceca. Stamen magnified 
and seen sideways ; anther arrowshape ; filament kneed 
and glandular in the middle. 
