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 Haller, that "finding Linnæus deaf to all that had been said, he sent him his treatise, to see whether he would persist in falsifying nature." Thus sordid underlings foment the animosities and flatter the failings of their superiors! Linnaeus judiciously suspended his opinion, and, after all, proves to be most correct. The analogies of the Orchideæ and Scitamineæ very clearly decide that each gland with its double masses of naked pollen can only be considered as one anther of 2 cells or lobes. Even Periploca græca, though not gynandrous, confirms this. Each lobe of its anthers stands, as in many Scitamineæ, on the outermost edge of the filament; thus meeting that on the adjoining filament, and in appearance constituting with it a 2-lobed anther, as the lobe of the Scitamineæ, where there is but one filament, meets its corresponding lobe by embracing the style.

6. Hexandria. Aristolochia, ''Engl. Bot. t.'' 398, a curious genus, of which there are many exotic species, is the only example