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BU. CUIflN^IN'airAM ON THE PEEIANTH IN PKILESIA. 



style, which bears at its extremity the obscurely three-lobed glu- 

 tinous stigma. 



found 



cimens in the western part of the Strait of Magellan and the 



Channels 



terially differ from one another in arrangement of parts, a very 

 brief description of one of them, gathered in the month of March, 

 1868, at Playa Parda Cove, on the south-west of the Cordova 

 Peninsula, may suffice. In that specimen, which was associated 

 with two other flowers of the natural form, instead of six divi- 



a 



Fig. 1. Double flower oi Philesia, 

 Fig. 



ordinary 



filament to a petaloid stamen and pistil, with two-cleft stigma : a, stigma ; 

 *, ordinary stamen ; c, section of petaloid stamen ; d, its anther. 

 Fig. 3. Ordinary flower of Philesia, from a dried specimen. 



sions of the perianth being present, there were eighteen ; and 

 these all possessed the same general form, which, as a reference 

 to the sketch will show, differed considerably from that ordi- 

 narily exhibited. The colour was the same as usual, save that 

 the tips of the greater number of the lacinise were provided with a 

 light green mucro, and that a few of the most external were tinged 

 with green at the base. On making a section of the flower, I 

 found that there were only three perfect stamens, one of which 

 was partially coherent with a fourth, which had become petaloid 

 in its nature, though still retaining an anther-lobe. The pistil 

 presented, instead of a three-lobed, a distinctly two-cleft stigma. 

 It is a fact worthy of mention, as regards the growth of Philesiay 



