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Non-holable Races. 
stamens are often (either all, or only some of them) 
transformed into petals with the result that dense double 
flowers are produced. 1 These have been described by 
Fig. 49. Ranunculus bulbosus semiplenus. A , the bulb ; 
A' and A", its leaves from the axils of which the flower- 
ing stems S arise ; E, terminal flower of the main stem ; 
S, secondary flowers partly broken off; T, tertiary flow- 
ers. (See p. 256). 
various authors. 2 In the neighborhood of Amsterdam 
this variety does not occur, so far as I know. On the 
1 Loc. cit., p. 185. Fasciated stems with broadened terminal flow- 
ers are also met with occasionally in the Ranunculus bulbosus in 
Holland. 
2 Compare the Ranunculus bulbosus Alcae of Naples, described by 
TERRACCIANO, Nov. Atti d. R. Instit. Napoli, 1895, Vol. VIII, No. 7. 
