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quoted in this connection the following localities and authori- 
ties as the only records he had been able to find: Esher, 
Surrey (H. C. Watson in “Cybele Britannica”); near Porto- 
bello, Edinburgh (Boswell in Sowerby’s “English Botany”); 
Fincham, Norfolk (Smith in “ English Flora ”). 
Mr. H. F. Taca, F.L.S., exhibited a spike of a Foxglove, the 
flowers of which showed adesmy of the corolla and other 
teratological features. 
In all the flowers on the spike was observed a separation 
of the parts of the normally gamopetalous corolla into a 
varying number of petals which were free from one another, 
except at the extreme base, where they were united with the 
stamens to form a short collar surrounding the lower portion 
of the ovary. In many cases the petaline structures were 
narrow and strap-shaped, in others they took the form of 
long tapering threads, in others again they were reduced to 
short tooth-like prolongations not exceeding the length of 
the ovary. 
The stamens, normally adnate to the corolla for a consider- 
able part of their length, were in this specimen free, except 
at their base, where their filaments contributed to the forma- 
tion of the short petaline collar, already described. 
The number of stamens varied. In some flowers four only 
were present, in others as many as eight. The filament 
portion of many of the additional stamens was broad and 
petaloid, suggesting a petal origin. 
The specimen was found among a group of Foxgloves 
growing in a garden at Haddington, and was sent to the 
Royal Botanic Garden by Mr. A. Burnett, Letham Bank, 
Haddington. 
Mr. H. F. Tace, F.LS., exhibited a flowering spike of 
Habenaria bifolia R. Br., var. chlorantha, Bab., the flowers on 
which were without spurs, while many possessed additional 
petaloid structures within the perianth proper. 
These additional petals, in the opinion of the exhibitor, 
were derived from some of the staminodal structures, which 
in the normal flower of Habenaria are combined with other 
flower-parts to form the column. Reference was made to 
petalody of stamens, a teratological feature common in many 
families with which the petalody of the staminodes of the 
flowers exhibited was compared. 
