PISTILLODY. 



301) 



into a long style, terminated by a flattened spathulate 

 stigma. 



Delphinium elatum is one of the plants in which 

 this change has been most frequently noticed.^ 



In willows the change of pistils into staminal organs 

 has been frequently observed. In Salix habylonica 

 Prof. Schnizlein has described various transition stages 



Fig. 165. Sempervivun tecoiorum. a. Normal stamen, h. Normal 

 carpel, h, c, e,f, g. Structure partly staminal, partly carpellary. d. 

 Transverse section through e, showing pollen internally, ovules ex- 

 ternally. 



between the carpels and the stamens, and in one 

 instance, in addition to this change, a perfect cup- 

 shaped perianth was present, as happens normally 

 in Fopulus.^ Mr. Lowe also records the conversion 

 of stamens into ovaries in Salix. Andersoniana, and 

 this by every conceivable intermediate gradation.^ 



> Godron, ' Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr.,' xiii, p. 82, Re^ 

 Cited in Henfrey, ' Bot. Gazette,' iii, p. 12. 

 * Ann. Nat. Hist.,' September, 1856, p. 56. 



See also Kii-schlegcr, 



