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PUYLLODY 



cup formed by the confluence of four glanduliferous 

 hairs and the concave leaf and the perfect ovule. 



Brongniart^ records ovules of Delphinium elatum 

 existing in the form of marginal lobes of the car- 

 pellary leaf itself; so that each ovule corresponds 

 to a lobe or large tooth of this leaf, the funiculus, as 

 well as the raphe, being formed by the median nerve 

 of the lateral lobe. M. Olos^ mentions a similar in- 

 stance in Aquilegia Skinneri ; and another is figured in 

 Lindley's ' Elements of Botany,' p. 88, f. 180. 



Cramer,^ from an examination of several ovular mal- 

 formations, as well as from the investigation of the 

 mode of evolution of the ovules, is led to a similar 

 conclusion with reference to the production of ovules 



YiQ. 143. Portion of an open foliaceous cai-pel of Delphinium, with 

 ovules on the lobules. 



' ' Comptes Bendns/ vol. xviii, March 25th, 1864, and ' Ann. So. Nat.,' 

 3 ser., vol. ii, p. 32. 

 ' ' Mem. Acad. Sc. Toulous.,* ser. 5, vol. iii. 

 ' ' Bildungsabwcich. Pflanz. Faiuil.,' p. 89, tab. xi. 



