360 GOETHE ON THE METAMORPHOSIS OF PLANTS. 
in the Ingleborough district, and that its Continental distribution is not 
opposed to its being found with us; but it is desirable to have modern 
confirmation of its occtiftence before it can be with certainty called a 
British plant. 
As H. alpina is described by Reichenbach, Koch, Godron, Boreau, 
and others, it is only necessary to add that its unbranched stem and 
large petals clearly distinguish it from H. petrea, which it does not 
resemble even in aspect. 
ESSAY ON THE METAMORPHOSIS OF PLANTS. 
By J. W. von GozrHE.—1799. 
Translated by Emtty M. Cox ; with Explanatory Notes 
by MaxwELL T. Masters, M.D., F.L.S. 
(Concluded from p. 345.) 
(PraATE XL) 
X. Of the Fruit. 
14. We shall soon perceive that the fruit is of like origin with the 
previous organs, and subject to the same laws. We here speak more 
particularly of those seed-vessels which enclose so-called covered (angio- 
spermous) seeds, or, more correctly, which are formed for the develop- 
ment of a larger or smaller number of fertilized seeds within them. It 
will be easy to show that these seed-vessels may be explained by the 
nature and organization of those parts of the plant which we have already 
considered. : 
5. Here again retrogressive Metamorphosis reminds us of Nature's 
law. In Pinks, for example, the very irregularity of which makes them 
such familiar and favourite flowers, it not unfrequently happens that the 
capsule assumes the appearance of sepals, and the styles shorten. The 
capsule of the Pink has even been transformed into a true and 
calyx; little reranants of the styles and stigmas remaining attached 
to the tips of the divisions, whilst in the centre of this second calyx, 
a more or less perfect corolla was developed instead of seed.* 
* See § 105. 
