98 PROFESSOR HENSLOW, ON A MONSTROSITY 



sepals instead of being placed in their axils where we might rather 

 expect to find them. 



Fig. 18. represents a fact which was observed in the present case, 

 where some of the latent buds in the axils of the altered petals were 

 partially developed. This development might perhaps be considered as 

 indicating the construction of a compound flower, and those buds which 

 in ordinary cases compose the outer and abortive florets, it might be 

 said, are here manifesting themselves. But the axes of these buds lie 

 nearer to the axis of the whole flower than the petals in whose axils 

 they are developed; whereas it appears by fig. 17, that they ought to 

 be further from it, since the centres of the five outer circles marked (e) 

 would represent the axes of the several buds, whose partial develop- 

 ment must be supposed to be on the side next the axis, if we allow 

 any weight to the analogy between the position of the abortive 

 stamens on the supposed calyx, and the fertile stamens on the central 

 disk. 



These figures are all that I have thought it necessary to give for 

 the purpose of illustrating the structure of the flower; but as there 

 were several interesting appearances noticed upon dissecting the pistil, 

 I have selected some of them for the second plate, as they may 

 possibly serve to throw some light upon the relationship which the 

 several parts of the ovarium bear to the leaf, and to support the 

 theory of their being all of them merely modifications of that im- 

 portant organ. 



Fig. 19. is a pistil in which the three ovules have become foliaceous, 

 and the central, or terminal bud of the flower-stalk is developing in 

 the proliferous form represented in fig. 4. 



Fig. 20. The central bud is not developing ; but the three axillary 

 buds in the bases of the transformed valves of the pistil are here 

 assuming the form of branches on which one or two pair of leaves are 

 expanded. 



Fig. 21. 22. unite the appearances in fig. 19 and 20, with the 

 addition of a glandular body seated between the leaves at their 



