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V. Ona remarkable T. ariety of Pedicularis Syloatica. | In a Letter 
... to Alexander feste Esq. F.R.S. and Sec. L.S. By James 
Edward Smith, M. D ERS P.LS. 
Read February 7, 1809. _ 
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I wave lately been favoured by the Marquis of Stafford with a 
-specimen of a remarkable variety of the Pedicularis sylvatica, 
. gathered by his lordship last summer on his estate in Sutherland. 
It consists of a solitary flower of that-plant, which, instead of 
its proper ringent form, with two long and two short stamens, 
has a salver-shaped regular corolla, with six stamens, four of which 
are longer than the others. "There is also what appears to be the 
style partly changed to a petal, and yet bearing a membranous 
expansion like one side of an anther. I conceive therefore that 
this is really an attempt at a seventh stamen, though become 
partly a petal. There is however no other sign of a style. The 
Marquis sought in vain for another specimen; but it is re- 
markable that Mr. Hooker and Mr. Borrer found one resembling 
it in the same neighbourhood this very season. — 
This specimen is very interesting to me, as being another in- 
stance of the same kind of variety as I have noticed in Galeopsis 
Tetrahit at Matlock. See Fl. Lapponica, ed. 2. 201. I have also 
had in my own garden some regular salver-shaped flowers of 
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