THE PRINCIPLES OF BOTANY. 
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24th, — Pulse 44 ; appetite good ; she swallows much 
better, and is evidently beginning to gain flesh. Ordered the 
tonic powder to he given once a day only. 
July 2nd. — Vaginal discharge nearly ceased; the little 
which escapes is slightly tinged with blood. Discontinue 
medicine. 
5th. — Pulse and respiration natural ; vaginal discharge 
scarcely perceptible. The nasal defluxion ceased a week ago, 
but the Schneiderian membrane still continues of a mahogany 
colour. The eruption above the hocks is healed, but desqua- 
mation of hair and slight sloughing are going on below the 
hocks and knees. The recovery is now so far completed that 
the mare may be turned to grass as soon as the weather, 
which is now very showery, permits. 
THE PRINCIPLES OF BOTANY. 
By Professor James Buckman, F.L.S., F.G.S., &c. 
( Continued from p. 477.) 
We have now to introduce our readers to a series of plants 
so curious and irregular in the structure of their flowers as 
to have obtained for them the name of Anomales , but for 
which we are somewhat prepared after an examination of 
the Iridacece . To quote from the c Vegetable Kingdom:’ 
“ In the Narcissal alliance the series was terminated by 
irids, many of whose genera have a singularly irregular 
corolla: as for example, Babiana ; there was, however, even 
in these last an exact symmetry in the number of parts of 
which the flowers consist. In this alliance that symmetry is 
wholly lost, the number of perfect stamens, as represented by 
authors, being reduced to one, or even half a one, and not 
exceeding five in any instance. At the same time the devel- 
opment of the foliage takes a new direction. In the majority 
of Narcissales the leaves are absolutely sword-shaped, and 
their veins consequently run in parallel lines ; and even 
when, as sometimes happens, their leaves become widened, 
the veins still converge at the point. But in the Anomal 
Alliance the veins always diverge ; the result of w r hich is a 
foliage of quite another character, to which among Endogens 
