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Mr. Salmon concluded as follows: We have now gone 
through in succession the stages of growth in the order of their 
occurrence, from the planting of the seed until the reproduction 
of the same, and what I hope to have made clear is, that the 
development of the flower with the production of the seed is 
provided for from the very first, and may be said to be the result 
of adaptation to circumstances of the typical foliage organs which 
we call “ Phyllomes.” They are first seen in the embryo plant as 
the plumule, then (as in the bean) they appear as scales, gradually 
in this example working up to the pinnate and stipulate variety 
of leaf ; in due time bracts appear, being another departure, then 
come sepals, petals, stamens, and carpels, all developments of 
one typical leaf (nct metamorphoses, because that implies change 
of one thing into another, which is not the case here), and which 
development can, if necessary, take the form of tendrils, spines, 
or other forms necessary to the economy of different species. 
Necessarily only main points have been brought forward. 
Many proofs have been neglected, and exceptions unnoticed ; nor 
has any mention been made of abnormal growths, in the study of 
which abundant instances of the replacement of one organ by 
another occur, tending very materially to show the common origin 
of the different organs of plants. 
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 131TH, 18or. 
EVENING FOR SPECIMENS. 
