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Teratological Notes.— On a 



small single 



Fuchsia {F. fulgens^ 



var.) that I have been watching, so large a percentage of the flowers 

 (considerably over one-half) are monstrous, and the forms produced 

 are so different that it may be worth while to record those that were 

 noticed, though cases similar to several of them are already on 

 record. They will be readily understood from the diagrams annexed, 

 which represent plans of the flowers above the calyx-tubes. 



Besides the normal tetra- 

 merous flower (Fig. i), sev- 

 eral were noticed that were 

 trimerous throughout (Fig. 

 2). In one flower, otherwise 

 normal, a stamen adhered by 

 the whole length of its fila- 

 ment to the middle of the 

 calyx-lobe before which it 

 stood, and on which it thus 

 came to form a Avide-topped 



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anther being free 

 and pofiniferous. One flower 

 (Fig. 3; was normal except- 

 ing that two contiguous seg- 

 ments of the calyx were 

 united, and so reduced in 

 size that this organ appeared 

 regularly trilobed, while the 



the line of 



opposite 

 had its 



Fig. 5. 



^^t^ 



petal 



union had its edges some- 

 what involute and fused with 

 the filament before it, so as 

 to form a horn-like organ 

 something like the spur of an 

 Aquilegia, Two calyx-lobes 

 of another flower (Fig. 4) 

 we're adherent throughout 

 until anthesis, when they tore 

 apart irregularly for about 

 one-half the distance from 

 tip to base. The stamen op- 

 posite one of them was entire- 

 ly wanting; that before the 

 other was free from its in- 

 sertion up to the anther, 

 which was joined by a small 



part of one edge lu tne middle line of the double calyx-segment. The 

 other parts were normal. Finally, two flowers (Fig. 6) were joined 

 from the bases of their peduncles to the top of the calyx-tubes. The 

 adjacent sepals of each, on one side, were united. One calyx-seg- 

 ment and two stamens were suppressed on the united sides, and the 

 ovary of each was three-celled through the imperfect development of 

 the corresponding septa (Fig 5), In several of these forms the aes- 

 tivation was considerably disturbed. 



