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ENATION 



Professor Morren considers the adventitious peta- 

 lodes as rudiments of so many supplementary flowers, 

 axillary to the calyx, and adnate to the corolla ; each 

 lobe then would, in this view, represent an imperfect 

 flower, and the completed catacorolla would be formed 

 of a series of confluent flowers of this description. 

 But this view involves the assumption of the suppres- 

 sion of all the parts of the flower, except the lobes in 

 question. 



Fig. 214." Catacorolla" of Gloxinia, formed from the union of ad- 

 ventitious petalodes on the outside of the time corolla (after Morren). 



The view here propounded that the lobes in question 

 are enations from the true petals, which become con- 

 fluent, so as to form the catacorolla, is surely more 

 simple, involves no assumptions of suppression of 

 parts ; and, moreover, is borne out by the examination 

 of some flowers, where the production of these adven- 



