474 DEGENERATION. 



Hodgsonia and some other cucurbitaceous plants. 

 From their very different origin in different plants it 

 is necessary to study the development in each case, 

 and not apply to the generality what may be peculiar 

 to one. In any case this formation in question gene- 

 rally belongs more to general morphology than to 

 teratology.^ 



Kirschleger, however, has recorded the existence of 

 a cirrhose sepal in Curcurbita Pej^o^ 



* See Darwin, " On Climbing Plants," ' Journal of Linnean Society,' 

 vol. ix, p. 1. 

 Flora,' 1845, p. 615. 



