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4. Meracuromy, indicating the sree or losing of colour in 
one and _the same flower, general with age. Kxamples are 
07 , Ribes aurem and certain forms of Viola 
Two or more of the above categories may be represented in one 
and the same plant. Thus Medicago media shows amphichromy, 
heterochromy, and metachromy; Viola tricolor f. versicolor is 
polychromatic, metachromatic, heterochromatic, and perhaps 
even sometimes amphichromatic. Certain plants are known to 
vary in regard to floral coloration with the season, producing 
flowers of one colour in one season, of another colour in another 
season. This change of floral colour in one and the same or in 
separated stocks can be termed seasonal amphichromy or seasonal 
heterochromy. 
Miss M. EK. Francis ‘“‘ in damp cil inac copse ; where Sona 
ties of lady’s smock grows,’’ near Rudgewick, Sussex. The pla 
has well-developed radical leaves and shows no sign of iach, 
but all the peduncles are about 9 cm. high, one-flowered and quite 
destitute of cauline leaves or bracts. In ne Ts mre received 
5 of them arise from the rosette of basal lea 
This plant is evidently similar to that deeeeabel as Cardamine 
pratensis B uniflora by Sternberg and Hoppe in Denkschr. Bot. 
Gesell. Rege usburg, 1815, p. 157, where the following descrip- 
tion is given: “‘ acaulis, aphylla, uniflora, foliis sec ie oe 
e 
been found in recent floristic literature to this pee bee rae 
be looked upon as an unstable mutation or sport. W. B. T 
published * Contributions to the Flora of North Patagonia and 
the adjoining Territory,’’ which consists of an account of plants 
ecard by G. Claraz, a Swiss gentleman, in Argentine terri- 
tory. In the same author’s paper in the Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 
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America,’ pp: -158-168 he dealswith plants from localities in Chile. 
Again in the Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xxvii. 1891, p. 471, Ball, under 
