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 INDEX OF SUBJECTS

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��Abel, Clarke, characters and descrip- tions of three new species of plants found in China by, 319 — 328; notice of his collection, 326

Acicarpha, observations on the genus, with description of a new species, 307 — 309 ; proposed as the type of a new family, 309 ; further obser- vations on, 312 — 318

Actinophora, affinities of the genus, 646

Albumen, its origin, 23; occasional existence in Proteaceae, ibid. ; and in Cyrtandraceae, 587; its import- ance, 587 note ; in Sterculiaceae, 623

Allium descendens, exceptional order of expansion of the flowers of, 280

Anadenia, exceptional order of expan- sion of the flowers of certain species of, 280

Angianthus, synonymy of the genus, 283

Antherse, their examination at an early period universally neglected, 6 ; great advantage of this exami- nation, ibid. ; their structure in Orchideae and Asclepiadeae, ibid. ; views of Linnaeus, Jussieu, and Richard on this subject in Ascle- piadeae, ibid.; views of Jacquin, Koelreuter, Rottboell, Cavanillcs, Smith, and Desfontaines, 7 ; views of the author, 7, 8 ; and in Or- chideae, 9 ; development of in Ascle- piadeae, 197, 198; arrangement of in Sterculiaceae, 623

Antennaria, history and characters of the genus, 300—302

��Apocineae, difficulty of circumscribing the order, 195 ; subdivision of it, ibid. ; characters and descriptions of the genera, and species of the section of the order "seminibus comosis," 232 — 247

Ascidia of Cephalotus and other pitcher-pJants, observations on the, 357

Asclepiadeae, views of various authors as to the structure of the Antherae in, 6 — 8 ; examination of, 8 ; me- moir on the order, 193, &c. ; cha- racters and descriptions of the order, genera, and species, 200 — 231 ; ob- servations on the flower in its earlier stages, 196—198

Asphodeleae, order of reduction of stamina in, 278

Baccharis, history and characters of

the genus, 293-4 Banks, Sir Joseph, his invaluable

herbarium and library, 31, 199 ;

important results of his voyage, 163 Begonia, order of expansion of flowers,

and position of female flowers in,

279 note Bennettia, observations on the struc- ture and affinities of the genus,

663, 664 ; characters of the species

of, 665 Bentham's Flora Australiensis, names

of plants quoted in, from Mr.

Brown's herbarium, 708 — 711 Bocconia, reductions of pistillum in,

272 Boopideae, proposed as a family, by M.

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