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modified so as to represent a leaf-petiole at the bottom. The 
separation extended down to the base of the ovary. 
In the flower previously mentioned (Pl. LIX. fig. 37 a), Simroth 
found one green petal aud facing it a normal one ; but the inter- 
jacent sepals were half coloured, half green, so that the green 
portions were adjacent to the green, and the coloured to the 
coloured sepal. 
P. Magnus showed to the members of the “ Brandenburger 
botanische Verein " Fuchsias with leafy sepals; the report of the 
proceedings which we have seen leaves it undecided whether there 
was any displacement of the sepals at the same time. 
Pl. LVIII. fig. 29, for which we are indebted to the kindness of 
Prof. Liebe, shows, besides other peculiarities, two normal and two 
green rather small sepals. 
On 19th November, 1887, we obtained a trimerous flower grown 
in a greenhouse, which showed two normal sepals together with 
one which on one side of the midrib was green, but on the other 
coloured as usual. The former portion extended down to the top 
ofthe petiole. Also in this case a small petiole might be dis- 
cerned, bearing on one side a lateral protuberance of the same 
shape asthe four in Buchenau's flower (fig. 5). This case, which in 
every respect but one is similar to MeMurrich’s, is specially inter- 
esting on account of this very protuberance. Buchenau in his 
case considered them to be the representatives of the wanting 
petals. But when we see that appendages of this kind very 
often occur at the base of Fuchsia-leaves, the plausibility of this 
view is greatly lessened. These small excrescences, or stipules, 
are particularly conspicuous in No. 3204 of the de Vries collee- 
tion, at the base of two foliaceous sepals, which have detached 
themselves from the tube. Now in this flower the four petals 
appear normally, so that the transformation of petals is alto- 
gether out of the question. We therefore consider that where 
the petals of Fuchsia disappear, they do so in accordance with 
what has been advanced in § 2. 
The just mentioned flower of Prof. Liebe deserves a special 
description. Putting aside the phyllody of two sepals, and the 
circumstance of two petals being somewhat sepaloid, our attention 
is at once directed to the abnormal peduncle which supports the 
flower. In the first place, the peduncle is unusually long; in the 
second place, it bears two pairs of opposite leaves, one of them not 
far from the base, the other halfway up the peduncle (Pl. LVIII. 
