256 PHYLLODY 



Anemone nemorosa. Daucus Carota. 



coronaria. Epilobium hirsutum ! 



Delphinium crassicaule. Rosa, var. cult. ! 



Nymphsea deutata. Lonicera Periclymenum. 



Ti'opaeolum majus ! Anagallis arvensis. 



Dictamnus albus. Primula sinensis ! 



Trifolium repens ! Petunia, var. cult. 



Torilis anthriscus. Jatropha Pohliana. 



Heracleum Sphondylium. Euphorbia geniculata. 



In addition to the foregoing there are very numerous 

 instances of similar substitution in chloranthic flowers. 

 In the above list only those cases are given wherein 

 the leafy change is confined to the stamens, or, at least, 

 to a few only of the other parts of the flower. 



Phyllody of the pistils.' This is of more common occur- 

 rence than is the corresponding change in the case of 

 the stamens. It is of interest, as it sometimes serves 

 to illustrate the morphological nature of the pistil. 

 Of this the double-flowering cherry is a well-known 

 illustration, the pistil being here represented by two 

 small foliar laminae, whose midribs are prolonged with 

 a short style, terminated by an imperfect stigma. It 

 is usually the basal portion of the pistil, the ovary, 

 which is thus specially affected, the margins being 

 also often disunited so as to expose the ovules. These 

 latter organs may be absent or they may themselves 

 be the subjects of foliaceous development. Moquin^ 

 relates having found in the neighbourhood of Mont- 

 pellier a flower of a tulip the ovary of which was repre- 

 sented by true leaves, which bore on their margins the 

 ovules, and thus presented a striking analogy with 

 the carpels of those Sterculias, like ;8'. 'platanifolia, 

 which are foliaceous in texture and open very early in 

 the course of their development. A similar occur- 



* " If we keep in view the observations which have now been made, we 

 shall not fail to recognise the leaf in all seed-vessels, notwithstanding 

 their manifold forms, their variable stiiicture, and different combi- 

 nations." (Goethe, ' Metam.,' 78.) Wolff, ' N. Comm. Acad. Petrop.,' 

 1766, xii, p. 403, expresses precisely the same opinion as to the nature 

 of the seed-vessel. 



' El. Terat. Veg.,' p. 205. 



