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antheriferous.^ Moggridge figures a flower of Ophrys 

 insectifera in which the rostellate process was replaced 

 by an anther.^ 



Mohl remarks that the change of pistils into stamens 

 is more common in monocarpellary pistils than it is in 

 those which are made up of several carpels. It seems 

 clear that in this transformation the lobes of the anther 

 and the development of pollen have no relation to the 

 production of ovules. 



Staminody of the accessory organs of the flower. The scales 

 that are met with in some plants, either as excrescences 

 from the petals, or as imperfect representatives of 

 stamens or other organs, are occasionally stamijioid; 

 thus the scales of Saponarla officinalis^ of Silene, 

 Nerium Oleander^ the rays of Passiflora, the corona of 

 Narcissus^ have all been observed occasionally to bear 

 anthers.* In the case of Narcissus the loose spongy 

 tissue of the corona seems to have the nearest analogy 

 to the anther-lobes, while the prolonged connective 

 is more like the ordinary segments of the perianth in 

 texture. The species in which this change may most 

 frequently be observed are, N. poetic us , N. incompara- 

 hilisy and N. montaniis. 



M. Bureau found in some flowers of Antirrhinum 

 majus two petal-like bodies standing up in front of, or 

 opposite to the two petals of the upper lip,* and similar 

 developments in which each of the two adventitious 

 segments are surmounted by an anther may be met 

 with frequently. It does not follow because these 

 organs bear anthers that they are morphologically true 

 stamens. They are really scales, &c., taking on them- 

 selves accidentally the characters proper to stamens. 



' Euphorbiaceae,' p. 205. 



' Seemann's ' Joum. Bot.,* iv, p. 168, tab. 47, f. 1. 



* Moquin-Tandon, 1. c, 220, Paasifiora. Masters, ' Joum. Linn. Soc.,' 

 1857, p. 159, Saponaria. Seemann's ' Joum. Botany,' vol. iii, p. 107, 

 Narcissus. 



* ' Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr.,' 1857, p. 452. 



