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absent, it may be said that this form is intermediate between 
No. 2 and the peloric type. 
No. 3. Flower having one posterior (purple) petal and five 
anterior (yellow) petals (Plate L. fig. 7).—These flowers were 
not uncommon; they had siz stamens and sometimes six sepals. 
None were seen with less than three spurs. 
No.4. Flower having three posterior (purple) petals and two 
anterior (purplish) petals (Plate L. figs. 16 & 17)—Of this - 
very remarkable form only a single flower was seen. The corolla 
had no spur. The stamens were five in number. The filaments 
were not standing up in a regular arrangement, but were some- 
what irregularly bent. It is not certain that this bent position 
of the filaments was the original one, for the anthers had already 
dehisced, and similar bent filaments were seen in several normal 
flowers after dehiscence ; on the whole, however, the appearances 
suggested that the stamens had not been properly formed. The 
sepals were five in number. If this form be compared with the 
normal one (figs. 1 & 14), it will be seen that the symmetry is, 
as it were, inverted, for in this flower the posterior petals are 
three and the anterior petals are two, thus inverting the usual 
arrangement. In this flower, however, the three posterior petals 
were not closely united to form a lip, but the central one was 
separated by considerable clefts from the other two. 
Some forms were found to which the term “ monstrous” might 
with some propriety be applied. Chief amongst these are flowers 
which are built up of the parts of two flowers rolled into one. 
[From the analogy of other double monsters it would probably be 
more correct te speak of these flowers as consisting of a single 
flower which has partially divided into two.] This form of 
monstrosity is well known in many orders *, and is not very 
rare in Linaria spuria, three such flowers having been seen by us. 
The pelorie form of Zinaria is perfectly well known, but the 
other abnormal forms which we have described do not appear to 
have attracted much attention. 
There is, however, a good detailed account of many abnormal 
forms given by Chavannest, amongst which our form No. 2 is 
described and figured (pl. viii. fig. 1); the instance given by 
Chavannes is the 3-spurred variety of No. 2, and it is remarkable 
* Vide Masters, ‘ Teratology,’ sub voce “ Synanthy,” p. 37, &c. 
T Chavannes, * Monographie des Antirrhinées,’ Paris, 1833, pp. 54-14. 
Plates. 
