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are.and an unpublished genus that 1 have formerly ai- 
luded to (Flinders’s Voy., 2, p. o57), as in some degree explai- 
ning the real structure ofEuphorbia, and from the consideration 
of which also it seems probable that vvhat was formerly descri- 
bed as the hermaphrodite tlower of that genus, is in reality a 
compound fasciculus of flowers.“ 
Endelig findes en nærmere Udvikling af Browns Anskuelser 
1818 i „Transactions of the Linnean Society^, Vol. XII, S. 99. 
Her hedder det: „I have formerly observed, that in a few cases 
the footstalk of the ovarium is dilated and obscurely lobed at 
top: but in the species now referred to it terminates in three 
distinet and equal lobes of considerable length, and which being 
regularly opposite to the cells of the capsule may be compared 
to the three outer foliola of the perianthium of Phyllanthus ^ be- 
tween which and the cells of the capsule the same relation ex- 
ists. This calyx is most remarkable in an undescribed species 
of Euphorbia from the coast of Patagonia, in the Herbarium of 
Sir Joseph Banks; but it is observable, though less distinet, in 
E,punicea and several other species. 
Ligeledes hedder det sammesteds: „We have already, however, 
I believe, sufficient evidence that this supposed hermaphrodite 
flower is in reality formed of several monandrous male flowers 
surrounding a single female. In conformity with this view of 
its composition, and with the relation above attempted to be 
established, the development of the pistillum precedes that of 
the stamina in many species of the genus. It is more difficult 
to determine whether this order of expansion and relative posi¬ 
tion of sexes in Euphorbia be in conformity with the general 
rule, or an exception to it. For its fasciculus of flowers may 
be considered as analogous either to the simple spike, and con- 
sequently having an inverted order of expansion, as in Allium 
descendens^ and certain species of Grevillea and Anademia: or it 
may be assimilated to the compound spike, as in several species 
of the genus the male flowers appear to be separated inte fasci- 
