216 REV. G. HENSLOW ON STAMINIFEROUS COROLLAS 
DESCRIPTION OF PLATE XXXII. 
Fig. l. Spray of Reseda odorata, var. prolifera alba. 
Fig. 2. Isolated branch proceeding from the centre of a calyx (ca), from which 
the corolla has probably fallen. Above it isa rudimentary pistil (Fi), 
the axis of which is prolonged into a flowering branch, from which 
secondary branches have proceeded in a similar way. The flowers 
which have retained their corollas consist of spherical tufts of fringed 
petals. 
Fig. 3. An instance where two branches have proceeded out of one and the same 
calyx. 
Fig. 4. A flower with the corolla removed, to show the columnar disk (instead 
of being unilateral, as in normal flowers) which bore the supernume- 
rary petals which replaced the stamens. In the centre proceeds an 
abortive ovary of several open, but coherent carpels. 
5. Ovary of fig. 1 opened, to show the rudimentary bud within it. 
. 6. Petal with nine lobes. (The usual number is from nine to twelve.) 
7. Petal with only one lobe. 
Note on Staminiferous Corollas of Digitalis dn et and Solanum 
tuberosum. By the Rev. Georcr Henysiow, M.A., F.L.S., 
F.G.S. 
[Read January 19, 1882. | 
(Pirate XXXIII.) 
Tuz subject of the present note was forwarded to me by the kind- 
ness of Mr. R. Mullard of Bermondsey, and consısted of a fine 
stem of Digitalis purpurea laden with blossoms, but which were 
very abnormal in having the corollas laciniated and staminiferous. 
He informs me that *the specimen was gathered at Tilburston 
Hill, Surrey ; and there were four flower-stalks growing appa- 
rently from distinet roots. On neither of the four stalks was 
there a normal flower. The corolla of most of the flowers on one 
stalk was reduced to a thread, and that often had a rudimentary 
anther, while some had two. Some of the filaments had as many 
as four anthers; and some of the flowers seven stamens.” He 
also adds :—* I notice that the posterior stamens remain under the 
lip, as in the normal flower, while the anterior ones are reflected 
back in a direction at right angles to the posterior. The stigma 
also projects much further beyond the posterior anthers than in 
the normal flowers. The consequence is, that the anterior stamens 
are overtopped by the flowers above in such a way that the stigma 
