142 Mr. Brown's Observations on Composita. 



species it not unfrequently does by the addition of one or more 

 inner series, tlie rudiments of an analogous disk are produced along 

 with each of the additional series. 



Yet, in opposition to this view, I have in a single instance found 

 one of the divisions of the urceolus in Pceonia Moutan changed 

 into an anthera; and the divisions of the apparently analogous 

 organ in Aquikgia, which in their usual state resemble barren 

 filaments, have sometimes been observed with perfect antherae*. 



* Schkuhr Handbuch, tab. 146. 



