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Non-I salable Races. 



stamens are often (either all, or only some of them) 

 transformed into petals with the result that dense double 

 flowers are produced.^ These have been described by 



Fig. 49. Ranunculus hulhosus scmiphnus. A, the bulb; 

 A' and A", its leaves from the axils of which the flower- 

 ing stems S arise ; E, terminal flower of the main stem ; 

 S, secondary flowers partly broken off; T, tertiary flow- 

 ers. (See p. 256). 



various authors.- In the neighborhood of Amsterdam 

 this variety does not occur, so far as I know. On the 



^ Loc. cif., p. 185. Fasciated stems with broadened terminal flow- 

 ers are also met with occasionally in the Ranunculus bulbosus in 

 Holland. 



^Compare the Ranunculus bulbosus Alcae of Naples, described by 

 Terracciano, Nov. Atti d. R. Instif. Napoli, 1895, Vol. VIII, No. 7. 



