THE NUMBER OF STAMENS AND CARPELS. 281 
examined (5684 of Table I. and 13 from second sowing in 
pots E and F), eight were found with 4 stigmas, and eight 
with 2. Besides these, two flowers were found with the ovary 
partly aborted and functionless. Thus we get andromonecism 
as well as gynomonecism ; but perhaps we should say only as 
an abnormality. I have not yet found the gynodiccism which 
Warming records *. 
Correlations in Number of Parts.—In the eight flowers with 
only two stigmas, 26 stamens and a staminode were present, while 
in the eight flowers with four stigmas 35 stamens were present. 
Other abnormalities were observed in the petals and sepals as 
follows t :— 
Tasir VIII. 
Abnormal Flowers of Stellaria media. 
| | 
No. of flowers. | No. of sepals. | No. of petals. | No. of stamens. | 
J 6 6 4 
4 6 5 4, 4, 4, and 5 | 
1 4 4 4 
2 4 5 3 and 4 
1 5 6 5 | 
1 5 2 4 | 
Such numbers are too small to allow us to trace any corre- 
lation; but they show that abnormalities in the petals and sepals 
amount here to but little more than one in a thousand flowers. 
It must not be thought that all the flowers, open at one time 
on a single branch, contain the same number of stamens ; this 
is far from being the case; 3-, 4-, 5-, &c. stamened flowers 
stand side by side very frequently. The following Table (IX.), 
in which staminodes are counted in with the stamens, gives the 
number of cases in which flowers with the same and different 
numbers of stamens were associated together. No flowers are 
included which were not of the same age, or were removed from 
each other by several internodes. 
* Loc. cit. mE f f 
+ 4-merous flowers (apetalous) are recorded as typical in Alpine Sikkim 
specimens, Hooker, ‘ Flora of British India,’ i. p. 230 (London, 1875). 
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