stion puts it out of the power of naturalists in general to have recourse 
to them. ‘The necessity for their publication may be considered as still 
less, now that engravings of this species have appeared in the Botanical 
Magazine and Botanical Register. These were given to the world 
since my drawings had been executed; but these last seem to me to con- 
tain more important analyses of the parts of fructification than either of 
the excellent works now mentioned. = Deiespt SG 
_. The irritability of the column of fructification, which is‘perhaps more 
evident in this individual of the genus than in any other, is a well known 
circumstance. It is bent, as Mr Brown describes it, “ duplici flexura ;” 
or, in the words of Sir James Smitn, it is “ curved, and recurved ;” 
and if this column be touched ever so slightly, or if any part of it be 
pressed with the finger, it immediately starts over to the other side of 
the flower, and is supposed, by this process, to scatter the pollen from 
the anthers f0.fo6 Seema. ee i it, ao 
The genus Stylidiwm was first established by Swartz; but Sir 
Jamxrs Smiru had the honour of proposing’ the name, and at the same 
time communicating specimens to the Swedish Professor and to Lasit- 
LARDIERE. It is now universally adopted, although the latter author, 
in a memoir in the Annales du Muséwm @ Histoire Naturelle, called. the 
genus Decandollea; and Smit himself, in Exotic Botany, published 
two species, with excellent figures, under the name of Ventenaitia. 
_ As an order, Stylidece is placed by Mr Brown near Campanulacea, 
on the one hand, and Goodenovia? on the other, differing from the for- 
mer in its “ reduced number of stamens, and the remarkable and inti- 
mate adhesion of their filaments with the style, through the whole length 
of both organs ;” and from the latter, (as also from Campanulacea), “ in 
the imbricate sestivation of the corolla, and, where its segments are un- 
equal, in the nature of the irregularity.” | 
It is curious that Ricnarp, and following him Jussieu, should have 
considered the Jabellum of Brown as the stigma; and as such have 
ficured and described it in the 18th volume of the Annales du Mu- 
séum, both in Stylidium laricifolium and S. Armeria of Lapitiar- 
piEeRE. - This idea ts satisfactorily controverted by our learned country- 
man, in his General Remarks in the Appendix to Captain FLInpERs’ 
Voyage, which is transcribed by Mr Gawer in the Botanical Register. 
_ Among a no less number than 45 species of Stylidiwm described in 
the Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. only two approach to the nature of shrubs, 
one of which is our §. laricifolium (S. tenutfolium, Brown). It is, 
like nearly all the others, an inhabitant of the neighbourhood of Port 
Jackson, and is readily cultivated in a mixture of loam and peat-earth, 
increasing by cuttings, and proving a great ornament to the greenhouse, 
as it flowers in the early part of spring. 
Drawn from the collection in the Botanic Garden of Glasgow. 
Fig. 1. Portion of a plant, natural size. Fig.2. Front view of a flower. 
Fig. 3. Side view of ditto. Fig. 4. Back view of the same. Fig. 5. Ger- 
men, and column of fructification. Fig. 6. Labellum. Fig. 7. Summit 
of the column, with the anthers bursting. Fig. 8. Hairs from beneath 
the anthers. Fig. 9. Summit of the column, with the anthers spread, 
having discharged their pollen ; the stigma protruded. Fig. 10. Pollen. 
—All more or less magnified. - 
