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Title: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society ..
Year: 1793 (1790s)
Authors: American Philosophical Society
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Publisher: Philadelphia : The Society
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
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d by Mr. Alton, in his excellent/for/«j- Kezvetifis^evidently belong to this clafs. I have foraetimes imagined, that the plant which is themore immediate fuhjedt of this letter is alfoan hybrid. Itis, certainly, a beautiful example of a connecting mediumbetween Podophyllum and Sangtdjiaria. Its calix is fome-times three-leaved, which is the uniform number of theleaves of the calix of the Fodophyllum. Thefe leaves, inboth plants, are coloured, and concave. The root of bothhas the fame fmell, and tafle. To the Sanguinaria^ ourplant is related in the following characters. The calix, inboth, is ihorler than the corolla, and falls off before theexpanfion of the flower : the petals are eight in number :the filaments are fhorter than the corolla: the ftlgma is per-fiftent. But the relation of the ^efferfonia to the two ge-nera, juft mentioned, is, perhaps, ftill greater than it ap-pears to be, from the mere circumftances which I havetaken notice of. The fades plantarunh as Linnaeus has very
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pg Vol. Ill pa.345 V( hi IrttaipixYtafad(e> irisb<ti b( h; Plb. ej tlfin P PODOPHYLLUM DIPPIYLLUM LINN. 347 very well expreffed the Idea, i\\Q phyftognomy of plants^ asI call it, is a matter which it is not neceflary a man (houldbe a very minute botanift to obferve. Almofl: any perfonwho fhould fee the Ji^fferfonia^ the Sanguinaria^ and thePodophyllum-i growing together, either before, during, orafter, the time of flowering, would immediately difcovertheir famlly-relatlonfhip : ■ fades non onmibus una Nee diver/a tamen-, quails decet ejfe fororujn. I (hall conclude this long letter with exprefling a hope,that it will not prove altogether unentertalning to you;for I cannot but fuppofe, that every attempt (mine, I know,is an humble one) to encreafe the mafs of that amiablefclence which we both cultivate, will be acceptable to thefucceflbr of Li n n-s: u s. I have the honour to fubfcribe myfelf, Dear Sir, Your obliged friend, &c. BENJAMIN SMITH BARTON. Philadelphia, April 29t

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