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superposed, so that one as usual springs from the edge, but the 
other is inserted somewhat lower. If we start from the latter 
and turn the flower, we get the impression of the upper sepal 
being at the upper end of the spiral winding. 
A similar aberration of number as well as of position of the 
parts came under my observation some years ago in a monstrous 
specimen of a Foxglove, which showed an extraordinary degree 
of median prolification, the flowers nearest to the top of the 
inflorescence being altered in the manner described. 
As for the deviations from number it must be finally observed 
that numbers which in Fuchsia are considered abnormal are normal 
in other genera: thus many species of Jussiea, having according 
to Eichler, the numbers 5 and 6, many species of Gaura, for 
instance G. tripetala 3, and lastly Circea 2 in its flowers. 
CONCLUSION. 
It need hardly be pointed out that in the foregoing pages only 
the principal variations have been described. A great number 
of slight changes, such as dense hairiness of the ovary and calyx- 
tube, unequal size of the petals, an abnormal length of the tube, a 
splitting open of the same part, &c., are phenomena scarcely worth 
enumerating. Alterations arising from wounds have also been 
left unnoticed, as they only rarely came under our observation. 
In one such case we noted the tube bent at right angles with the 
ovary; in the concavity of the bending, one of the sepals seemed 
to have been broken off when the flower was in an early stage 
of development; besides the margin turned towards this side of 
the nearest sepal was brown, probably from the same cause. 
As I have said in the introduction, it was my intention to 
bring together the variations observed by several writers * and 
by myself, to group them and to draw some conclusions from 
them. 
Before entering on this last part of our task, we shall, to faci- 
litate reference, arrange the observed monstrosities in the 
following manner :— 
List of Monstrosities. 
l. Axillary prolification. 
(a) At the inner side of a sepal a trimerous calyx of a second flower... 416 
(b) Stalked flower-buds alternate with the petals ......... veennernens: 400 
2. Median prolification s.n 
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* An aberration, which we had no opportunity of examining, is an incipient 
median prolification, described by Masters, Veg. Terat., Germ. transl. p. 150. 
