OF STAMENS TO PISTILS. 



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quent occurrence among Orchids. I have observed 

 cases of the adhesion of the segments o^the perianth to 

 the stamen in Ophrijs aranifera, Odontoglossum, sp. 

 &c. It is the ordinary condition in 

 Gongora and some other genera. I 

 have seen it also in LUlum lancifolium. 

 Some forms of Crocus^ occasionally met 

 with, present a very singular appear- 

 ance, owing to the adhesion of the 

 stamens to the outer segments of the 

 perianth, the former, moreover, being 

 partially petaloid in aspect. M. de 

 la Vaud^ speaks of a similar union in 

 TUjridia pavonia. Morren^ describes 

 a malformation of Fuchsia wherein the 

 petals were so completely adherent to 

 the stamens, that the former were 

 dragged out of their ordinary position, 

 so as to become opposite to the sepals ; 

 the fiision was here so complete that 

 no trace of it could be seen externally. 

 It should be remarked that it was Adhesion of petaloid 

 the outer series of stamens that were stamens to penanth. 

 thus fiised.' 



Fig. 12. Croais. 



Adhesion of stamens to pistils. The stamens also may be 

 united to the pistils, as in gynandrous plants. Moquin 

 speaks of such a case in a Scabious ;"M.. Clos in 

 Verbascum australe.^ I have seen cases of the same 

 kind in the "Wallflower, Cowslip (Primula veris). Tulip, 

 Orange, in the garden Azalea and other plants. 



Miscellaneous adhesions. Sometimes organs, compara- 

 tively speaking, widely separated one from the other, 

 become united together. Miquel has recorded the 

 union of a stigma with the middle lobe of the lower 



' Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr.,' 1861, p. 147. 



* ' Bull. Acad. Belg.,' vol. xviii, part ii, p. 498. 



See also Pi-illieux, ' Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr ,' 1861. p. 195. 



* ' M^m. Acad. Toulouse,' 5th series, vol. iii. 



