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the centre of this part in our Rose — as in Anemone — we have a stem, 

 with the ordinary clothing of a peduncle, bearing the essential parts 

 of the flower ; the only difference being, that in this monstrosity a 

 part of the petals were in proximity with the involucre or altered 

 calyx. To continue the comparison, the stamens are inserted, not 

 on a calyx, but on a receptacle or torus ; while the pistils, not being 

 confined as they commonly are in Roses, by the contracted disc of 

 the so-called calyx, spread abroad their hairy stigmas, very much as 

 is seen in the Anemone." 



A similar monster, in which the so-called tube of the calyx was 

 quite absorbed, while the sepals became half- formed leaves, the petals 

 half-formed sepals, the stamens half-formed petals, and the centre 

 pushed upwards into a new Rose, whose calyx-tube was equally de- 

 ficient, occurred in our own garden, and is the subject of the fol- 

 lowing illustration. 



A third, for which we were indebted to a Hampstead Subscriber, 

 was more remarkable still. In this instance the calyx-tube was 

 again absorbed, or at least not manifest; the sepals were half converted 

 into leaves ; the petals even more than half changed into sepals ; the 

 stamens had fallen off, but appeared to have undergone little change ; 

 the exterior carpels were partly in their customary state; those 

 nearer the centre were converted into small leaves ; but the remainder 

 were carried up upon the axis or centre, which had lengthened into 

 a branch, in every conceivable state of transition, until the last, that 



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