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beginning with narrow extremities at tbe month of the involucre, 
and, adhering to this wdth their backs, they become gradually broader 
below, passing inwards, and attached to aii elevation in the centre, 
they diride the lower part of the involucre into five distinct cells, 
and supporting on their edges erect iimbrise, they divide the upper 
part also, but less completely ; teeth of the involucre numerous, 
coloured like the bractse, woolly on the inside, connivent; gland- 
appendage single, on the outside of the involucre towards the axis 
of the cyme, round, entire, peltate, folded in the middle so as to 
appear two-lipped, nectariferous ; four yellow teeth placed round the 
mouth of the involucre are abortive appendages. These appendages in 
E. MitckelliaTfa and several other indigenous species are quite white, 
and resemble petals. In ^upkorhia fuJgens they are bright red. 
M(de flowers about fourteen, in two rows in each loculament, and 
rising from its base, erect, petiolate, naked (without perianth), 
monandrous, mixed with chaff (abortive male flowers) which are woolly 
at the apex, and occasionally tinged red there. Fetioles colourless, 
as long as the involucre; filaments red, anthers two-iobed, lobes 
divaricated, so that those which are next each other in the two rows 
overlap, opening at a deep furrow along their outside. Pollen 
granules yellow, lenticular. Female flower solitary central, on a short 
stout pedicel, naked (without perianth). Styles 3, exaerted, hairy, 
each deeply cleft, or the single style divided to the base into three 
deeply clef t branches of a dark-red colour. Ovary, hairy, three-lobed, 
each lobe emarginate. Ovules solitary in each cell. — Bot. Maej, 
With the object of assisting the matter advocated, the following 
notes are given, in which the observer is directed to some few of the 
most easily to be remembered distinctive characteristics which distin- 
guish some of the most common orders of Queensland plants, as well 
as a few marks by which some genera and species may be readily recog- 
nised . These brief notes should be particularly acceptable to persons so 
situated as not to be able to consult works of reference upon the sub- 
ject, or who have not the leisure for botanic work in a more extended 
form. The marks which distinguish one plant from another are at 
times more prominent than the unobservant may imagine. Take, 
for example, three of our cultivated Passion-fruits; the number of 
those glandular processes at or near the top of the leaf-stalk is alone 
sufficient to determine or distinguish one of these from the other, 
even without the flower or fruit. Examine a leaf of the small Passion- 
fruit (Passiflora edulis), and it will be found to have but two of these 
processes. Another species, Passiflora Deoaisneana^ known by usually 
requiring to be fertilised by hand ; on this will be found four of these 
processes, while on the leaf-stalks of the two large kinds of G-rana- 
dillas — Passiflora quadrangularis and Passiflora quadrangularis, var. 
nmcrocarpa — will be found six of the glandular processes. Or take 
for another example the two Cruciferous plants so common in our 
gardens, Algssum and Iheris. These are, by those just beginning to 
take an interest in flowers, thought to bo plants of the same genus; 
but one distinctive feature a child will quickly perceive, and that is, 
that the flower of the foimer (which is known in England as Mad wort) 
has all its four petals equal-sized, while the latter plant, called Candy- 
tuft, has petals of unequal size, the two exterior ones being much 
larger than the others. 
