IN FUCHSIA GLOBOSA. 423 
$7. Deviations from Ordinary Number. 
As is the case in most other plants, deviations from ordinary 
number are not uncommon in Fuchsias. A trimerous flower 
is the most frequent instance of this abnormality. We have 
met with trimerous Fuchsias innumerable times, now with 
some of the parts disturbed, in other cases quite normally con- 
structed. On a woody Fuchsia at St. Leonards-on-Sea, which 
overshadowed a seat, I noticed in 1887 a great number of tri- 
merous flowers. It would therefore be easy enough to obtain a 
trimerous Fuchsia by cuttings, just as there is no difficulty in 
propagating Scaramouche and other varieties by the same method. 
Whether this flower would find permanent favour with the publie 
is a different question ; the florist would most probably have 
greater success by growing pentamerous Fuchsias such as may 
repeatedly be observed, or hexamerous ones *, of which latter a 
specimen is found in the de Vries Collection, under No. 2803 t. 
Besides those recorded, now and then dimerous Fuchsias came 
under our observation, having the pistil disturbed in every case. 
As examples of this sort of monstrosity, which calls to mind 
Circea lutetiana, we cite the following formule :— 
1. S(2 P2St242 C(t. 
2. S (2) P2 St(2 +0 COS. 
3. A specimen picked in a greenhouse on 19 Nov. possessed 
2 sepals, of which one probably was equivalent to two, 3 petals, 
4 stamens, of which one was a staminode, no pistil. 
We think the following cases very remarkable on account of 
their showing two typical numbers in one flower :— 
l. S (4) P3 St 3+4 C (4). 
2. S (4) P 2 St 2+4 C (2). 
In the former case the 1st, 4th, and 5th whorls show the number 
4, butthe 2nd and 3rd the number 3. In the latter there are two 
superposed whorls of four each, and the remaining of two each. 
3. S (3) P4 St 4+3 C (3). 
In this case, twice occurring in the de Vries collection. two 
petals each with an antipetalous stamen are placed in the space 
between two sepals. In the calyx-tube, in accordance with the 
* We had no opportunity of examining the ovary. 
t We possess a heptamerous flower of F. fulgens, while Prof. de Vries has 
one with 8 sepals, 5 petals, and 14 stamens, The ovary was absent. 
1 St 2--2 means two antipetalous + two antisepalous stamens. 
$ Or St 0 +(2); owing to the cohesion of the two stamens, their place of 
insertion could not be distinctly seen. 
