PETALODY. 287 



cissus, Colchicum, and Crocus. M. Fournier^ describes 

 a flower of Narcissus Tazetta from within the normal 

 perianth of which sprang a second one, equally pro- 

 vided with a cup and occupying the space usually filled 

 by the stamens. Flowers of Narcissus poeticus may 

 also be met with in which the stamens are replaced by 

 six distinct segments exactly resembling those of the 

 perianth in miniature.^ 



From an examination of these flowers it becomes 

 evident that petaHfication is brought about in difierent 

 flowers in difierent ways ; sometimes it is the filament 

 which becomes petaloid, sometimes the anther-lobes, 

 while at other times it is the connective which assumes 

 the appearance of petals.^ For instance, in Solanum 



Fio. 154. Double columbine, Aquilegia petalody of the filament. 



' ' Bull Soc. Bot. France,' 1859, vol. vi, p. 199. 



' Seeman's ' Journal of Botany,' vol. iii, p. 105 ; also Morren, ' Bull. 

 Acad. Belg.,' vol. ix, part 2, p. 264. 

 ^ Morren, 'Bull. Belg.,' iviii, p. 603. 



