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Description of Pl. 35. Monstrosity of Sinapis. 
1. Flower: changed. 
2. Same: sepals reflexed ; 2, a. portion alternates. 
3. More changed. Petals removed, situation of pis- 
tillum sketched in, two longer stamina opposite to 
two petals. 
4. Its pistillum opened ; 4, a. front view of its changed 
ovule ; 4, b. side view of ditto. 
5. Flower about similarly changed ; 5, b. portion alter- 
nates only 4 stamina all long, opposed to the 
petals ; 5, a. pistillum, open at apex, continuation 
of stigmata with placental suture seen clearly. 
6. Ovula of a pistillum, solid, scarcely any tendency to 
inverted edges... 
7. Flower: more transformed; 7, a. one of its stamina 
showing the articulation; 7, b. total dialysis of 
pistillum - —— of axis ; 7, c. aggregate 
ramuli of a 
8. Pistillum little reves 8, a. nearly perfiiat ovula 
from its base ; 8, c. imperfect ditto ; 8, d. ditto under 
pressure, rudiments of inner tegument seen at a. 
9. Pistillum; 9, a. lateral view of same laid open, a. 
Placentz ; 9, c. leaf in situ, its back turned out- 
wards ; 9, d. another ovule changed ; 9, e. ditto. 
10. Ovula commencing change, lateral and inner; 10, a. 
another more advanced ; 10, 5. ditto ditto. 

Pl. 36. Ovula of a species of Lonicera, exhibiting their 
metamorphosis into leaves, of which the outer coat alone ex- 
ists ; the nucleus is still visible in those instances in which the 
expansion of the teguments to a leaf is not quite completed. 

eformation in Melilotus.—In a monster variety of Meli- 
lotus, I find that there is a tendency to dialysis, and to regu- 
larity, the stamens are regular, alternately smaller. The 
petals are still unequal, margins of all are incurved ; ; the 
