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sfamen-nipples or buds ? And, therefore, the enlargement of 

 this can be nothing hut the continimtioti of abortive stamens 

 or cari>els, which, when dissociated, produce the fingered lemon 

 shown in Fig. 159. 



On p. 384, the '' Gardeners' Cln-onicle " says, " Dr. Bonavia hoMs 

 the opinion that the peel which co\ers the carpels consists in 

 reality of a roAV of modified or abortive carpels, but this is a 

 view which, as at present advised, we cannot share." 



Yet curiously enough, on p. 397, Fig. 60, of the same Journal, 

 a drawing is given of a teratological specimen, which proves thnt 

 my interpretation of the origin of the peel is the correct one. 



For what more satisfactory support to my interpretation can 

 there be than this interesting specimen ? Is it not clear that the 

 peel is made up of a fusion of phyllous organs, Avhich, in this 

 case, are depauperized to simple scaly bracts? 



I reproduce the draAving in outline, as it is the most interesting 

 teratological specimen I have yet seen. Fig. 152 hardly needs 



Fi*j. 152. jMrtlfoniiod ornnge, from " Ganleiiers' Chronicle," 29 ^Sfarcli 



1890, p. CO. 



any explanation. The orange peel it represents evidently was 

 forjned of more than one whorl of bracts. The pulp of this orange, 

 as shown on the same page of the " Gardeners' Cln'onicle," is made 

 up also of more than one whorl of carpels, but Avithout any coire- 

 spondence Avith the peel carpels, shoAving that the tAA^o are totally 

 distinct. In short, there is as little correspondence in this orange 



