OF THE BEACTS. 



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usual, and were covered for their whole length with 

 small rose-coloured bracts arranged in irregular whorls, 

 the upper ones sometimes enclosing imperfect flowers. 

 In the * Gardeners' Chronicle,' 1865, p. 769, is figured 

 a corresponding instance of Delphinium Consolidaf in 



Fig. 188. Delphinium Consolida. Fig. 189. Multiplication of 



Multiplication of bracts at the ex- bracts, &c.. Pelargonium. 

 pense of the other parts of the 

 flower. 



which the bracts were greatly increased in number, 

 petaloid, and, at the same time, the central organs of 

 the flower were wholly wanting. 



In flowers of Pelargonium may occasionally be seen 

 a repetition of the whorls of bracts, in conjunction 

 with suppression and diminished size of some of the 

 other portions of the flower (fig. 189). 



The common foxglove {Digitalis pui'purea) has like- 

 wise occasionally been observed subject to a similar 

 malformation. 



