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Hilaire uses a multiplicity of parts--several circles of stamens, etc .-- as evidence of the highness of the Ranunculaceae; now Owen has truly, as I believe, used the same argument to show the lowness of some animals, and has established the proposition, that the fewer the number of any organ, as legs or wings or teeth, by which the same end is gained, the higher the animal.

One other question.

Hilaire says (page 572) that "chez une foule de plantes c'est dans le bouton," that impregnation takes place.

He instances only Goodenia (319/8.

For letters on this point, see Index s.v.


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