Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . Fig. 240. Fig:. 241. Gerardia Seed {Gerardia communis).—An seed, unfortunately very rare in thiscountry. The oval, amber-coloured seed is enclosedin an apparently loose hexagonal network of a darkbrown colour, like a bird in a cage. The genusGerardia is common in North America, but whetherthe same type of seed prevails amongst the otherspecies we cannot tell. If so, they are mostdesirable microscopical objects (fig. 241, x 40). Barclays Maurandia {Maurandia Barclay-an

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Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . Fig. 240. Fig:. 241. Gerardia Seed {Gerardia communis).—An seed, unfortunately very rare in thiscountry. The oval, amber-coloured seed is enclosedin an apparently loose hexagonal network of a darkbrown colour, like a bird in a cage. The genusGerardia is common in North America, but whetherthe same type of seed prevails amongst the otherspecies we cannot tell. If so, they are mostdesirable microscopical objects (fig. 241, x 40). Barclays Maurandia {Maurandia Barclay-ana).—Curious, irregular, lobed seeds, resemblingten or twelve minute seeds agglomerated togetherinto one, of a dull cocoa-brown colour, like frag-ments of burnt sugar, with a rough reticulatedsurface (fig. 242).

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