. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. characterised by their deviation from the ordinarysymmetry observable in the relative arrangement of the parts of fructification of otherplants,—deviations which are of a very interestmg nature. Their stamens are anangedthus : two stand opposite each of the anterior and posterior sepals, and one oppositeeach of the lateral sepals ; there being 6 stamens to 4 sepals, instead of either 4 or 8,as would be nonnal. Now in what way does tliis arise ? Is the whorl of stamens to becons
. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. characterised by their deviation from the ordinarysymmetry observable in the relative arrangement of the parts of fructification of otherplants,—deviations which are of a very interestmg nature. Their stamens are anangedthus : two stand opposite each of the anterior and posterior sepals, and one oppositeeach of the lateral sepals ; there being 6 stamens to 4 sepals, instead of either 4 or 8,as would be nonnal. Now in what way does tliis arise ? Is the whorl of stamens to beconsidered double, one of the series belonguig to the sepals, and one to the petals, and,of these, a part imperfect ? I am not aware of any such explanation havuig beenoffered, nor do I know of a better one. It appears to me that the outer series is incom-plete, by the constant abortion of the stamens usually belongmg to the anterior and Fig. CCXLII.—Erucastrum Canariense. 1. a flower; 2. the stamens; 3. the siliqua, with the valveseparating from the replum ; 4. a transverse section of a seed; 5. a perfect Fig. CCXLII. 352 posterior !is in their BRASSICACE^. [Hypogynous Exogexs. iejials, the two paiis that remain belonging in fact to the foiu petals. But itfruit that the great peculiarity consists.
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