THE PRINCIPLES OP BOTANY. 
409 
The case, having been brought before the Master of the 
Rolls, was decided in favour of the plaintiff, the defendant 
being mulcted in damages to the stable and premises by way 
of compensation, to be assessed by a competent person, and 
the payment of the costs of the suit. 
This verdict does not satisfy the plaintiff, absolute removal 
of the nuisance being sought; but this does not set aside the 
value of the veterinary evidence, which I conceive was the 
most important in the whole case. 
I may add that a relative of the plaintiff was the first to 
discover the fact that the horses were fast becoming unsafe 
on their legs, and very excitable and unmanageable. 
THE PRINCIPLES OP BOTANY. 
By Professor James Buckman, F.G.S., F.L.S., &c. &c. 
{Continuedfromp. 409.) 
The natural order— Morace^;, Morads, includes three 
genera of great importance, namely : 
Morus —Mulberries. 
Ficus —Figs and cow-trees. 
Dorstenia —Con tray erva. 
The diagnosis of the order, according to Lindley, is as 
follows : 
“ Urticcil exogens ivith solitary suspended ovules , and a 
hooked albuminous embryo ivith a superior radicle .” 
The fact that plants with fruits so apparently different as 
the three we are about to describe should belong to the same 
natural order is calculated at first to puzzle the student of 
botany. 
But if we examine even the fruits, the mulberry, the fig, 
and the contrayerva, carefully, we shall soon find that their 
differences are really more apparent than real; thus the mul¬ 
berry has its Aclienice arranged on a conical receptacle, the 
contrayerva a flattened one, and the fig is, after all, only a 
receptacle, with, as it were, the apex compressed until it 
becomes pushed inwards—the interior of the fig being filled 
up with flowers and fruits, while the fleshy part of the so- 
called fruit is only the inverted receptacle. But it is, after all. 
