IN FUCHSIA GLOBOSA. 421 
In the same bottle there is a peduncle of which the flower has 
coalesced with a green leaf; on its lower portion two leaves 
spring at different heights, one of them even with an axillary 
flower. Has a leaf-bearing stem grown together with a ped- 
uncled flower ? Here, too, we must leave the matter undecided. 
It is manifest that the leaves springing from Prof. Liebe's 
flowers have a significance quite different from those preceding ; 
aecording to our opinion the phenomenon in Liebe's flower 
being a formation of additional parts, or a sort of incomplete 
prolification, in whieh a flower once or twice grows through its 
calyx. Here, on the other hand, the point in question was coales- 
cence of flowers with extra-floral parts, in which in every separate 
case it must be examined what sort of parts enter into the coa- 
lescence. 
(b) Growing together of two embryos.—Though most of our 
observations concern Fuchsia globosa, there is no sufficient 
reason to leave unmentioned a remarkable case of two embryos 
of different species growing together. We give the case as it is 
mentioned by Darwin * :— 
“A distinguished botanist, Mr. G. H. Thwaites, states that a 
seed from Fuchsia coccinea fertilized by F. fulgens contained two 
embryos, and was * a true vegetable twin. The two plants pro- 
duced from the two embryos were “extremely different in appear- 
ance and character, though both resembled other hybrids of the 
same parentage produced at the same time. These twin plants 
* were closely coherent, below the two pairs of cotyledon-leaves, 
into a single cylindrical stem, so that they had subsequently the 
appearance of being branches on one trunk.’ Had the two 
united stems grown up to their full height instead of dying, a 
curiously mixed hybrid would have been produced." 
(c) Union of floral organs.—I£ we remember that the vascular 
bundles of the sepals and the antisepalous stamens in the calyx- 
tube are situated close to one another, we might infer even d 
priori that adhesion of a sepal to an antisepalous stamen above 
the ordinary place of divergence might occur. Such a union has 
indeed repeatedly come under our observation. Once only it 
nothing but an axillary leaf-bud in a state of very slight development. In the 
same way the other cases mentioned may be explained by a sudden arrest of 
the buds, whereas the organs produced by them show an active growth and 
eventually may coalesce. Prof. de Vries has had this monstrosity photographed. 
* Variations of Animals and Plants, &e., 1875, i. p. 426. 
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