THE SKKTULARID^E. 



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this feature, one that is ordinarily spoken of as being merely ornamental in structure. Hut 

 what .shall \ve say when coutemplating such apparently riotous and frivolous e\ce,rs as arc 

 indulged in l>y Serfadaretta ,l,</iinx. for instanced It seems as if here Nature h;id gone to 

 altogether unnecessary lengths, even it' she did start liy forming the rugiitie> mi purely 



SI'ISKI) AXI> lilliHKIi cnXAXcilA "K THE SKKTri.AKIIi.K. 

 liKlirr*. i'Xi-i'|it 1 :;_', li: ' 186, .mil Ills, ilniwn I" tin- MIIIIC 



Fig. 128. Tliiiinriii riilmxln. 



Fig. IW.Xfrliilitrfllii iiiiwlriiln. 



Fi^ r . 1110. Itiitlitixin iinanunnni. 



Fig. 131. Diiitt"*in i'xi't'i ifriiialrl. 



Fig. 13'2.Sfrlul<ir!n 7ii.icnc;i. I Al'ti-r Allman.) 



Fig. 13&.Hiiilnisin 



Kif,'. 1:1 1. ,-v/a//'/ "/>.<i* ornata. 

 Kit:. U\ >'////*, 

 Kk r:n._Si/ M /A, 

 Pig. l.:7. .-l?f//? 



Fig. 139.. 



(I campj/tocarpwn i fi-nuilc >. ( Aftrr Allman.) 



rntn]ujFt'<-<i,'iniin i malr i. i AltcT Allinull.) 



and* rt, 



-/( /(i i-nntntti. 



utilitarian lines. There are many such eases known to naturalists, in which it appears that 

 development along certain lines had received in some way such an impetus or momentum that 

 the resulting structure goes far lievond the utilitarian demands of the case and enters the realm 

 of merely capricious excess. 



