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Staubgefasse." But the following is fuller and more in accord 

 with the specimens: — Plant not robust; heads more or less stalked; 

 bracts sometimes developed; corolla in the mature flower crumpled 

 at the base within the calyx and not exceeding the longest of the 

 calyx-teeth ; pistil becoming foliaceous, the ovarial part linear- 

 lanceolate, and often open above ; ovules more or less aborted. 



Examination of buds not ready to expand reveals no crumpling 

 of the corolla ; so that this evidently takes place in the rapid 

 growth of the tube which precedes the expansion of the flower ; 

 and it is impossible to resist the assumption that the unusual size 

 of the ovary and the narrowness of the mouth of the calyx are the 

 causes of it. 



Phyllody of the ovary to a greater degree than in typical parvi- 

 fiorum is not uncommon in Tnfolium pratense ; less modification in 

 this direction I have found in a plant from Glen Clova, Forfar- 

 shire, where the peduncle and pedicels were undeveloped, but the 

 corolla crumpled and the ovary elongated, though seen on micro- 

 scopic examination to contain two normal seeds. 



Nyman * correctly called T. pratense var. parvijionim an ab- 

 normal condition ; Penzig has given it a place in his Pflanzen- 

 teratologie \ ; and Babington,:[; until the publication of Lange's 

 incorrect figures of the petals and ovary, doubted if it were more 

 than an accidental state. I have wished here to show how it 

 is abnormal. 



Lange found his specimens at two localities in Denmark ; 

 Ascherson § records it as occurring near Karlsruhe ; and Magnus, 

 who mentions the foliaceous carpels, || had it from Memel in East 

 Prussia. Others have named additional localities. 



Less robust than the common form of Tyifolium pratense, it 

 resembles superficially the variety of this species called T. micro - 

 phylliim by Lejeune in his Flore des environs cle Spa,*iJ a type of 

 which may be seen at Kew. As Lange wrote " T. pratense var. 

 microphylluvi " on the label of his specimen, I believe that he 

 recognized this ; but T. viicrophyUnin (T. pratense var. microphyllani 

 Lejeune & Courtois) is not an abnormality. 



Similar also in habit are plants with prolification of the flower, 

 which I have seen from various places in Britain and have col- 

 lected near Bagneres-de-Bigorre in the Pyrenees ; and superficially 

 similar in the flower-head is T. pratense ys^v. multijidiun Seringe"* — 

 another abnormality, of which a type may be seen at Kew. It is 

 abnormal from sepalody of the petals. 



* GonsjJectus Florce EiirojJece, Oerebro, 1878, p. 173. 

 t Genoa, 1890, i. p. 386. 



I 31 e mo rials, Journal and Botanical Correspondence of C. C. Babington, 

 Cambridge, 1897, p. 421. 



§ Verhandl. hot. Vereins Brandenburg , xx. 1878, p. 110. 



II Ibid. xxi. 1879, p. 80. 



^f Liege, 1811, ii. p. 115. T. microphijlluin Desv. is T. pratense, but I ilo 

 not know lor certain in what form or variety. 

 ** In DC. Prod. ii. (Paris, 1825), p. 195. 



