INDEX OF SUBJECTS
��VOL II
��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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