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Excerpt from Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Vol. 8 I. Observations on the Perigynous Insertion of the Stamina of Plants. By Richard Anthony Salisbury, Esq. F. R. S. V. P. L. S. Read March 15, 1803. The following Observations have been hastily committed to paper, to excite the attention of those Botanists, whom I might have the honour of addressing this evening, to a very important branch of their favourite science; namely, that insertion of the Stamina which the celebrated Jussieu has denominated Perigynous: for I lament that as yet I have not met with one of our own countrymen, who had ever thought about the subject at all. I presume that this perigynous insertion is entirely factitious, or in other words, which you will all comprehend whether you have read Jussieu's book or not, that there is no instance whatever in the whole Vegetable Kingdom, of Stamina being inserted in the Calyx. Nor is this mere logomachia, or a cavil respecting terms: for, if my ideas be true this difficulty of distinguishing Calyx from Corolla will rarely occur, and the designation of each of those parts correspond more exactly with its real office and importance in the Vegetable Economy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.