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base, so as to become peltate, while in other cases, the 
disc of the leaf is so depressed that a true pitcher is 
formed. This happens also in the Lime 7’%/ia, in which 
genus pitcher- or hood-like leaves (folia cucullata) may 
frequently be met with. There are trees with leaves 
of this character in the cemetery of a Cistercian 
Monastery at Sedlitz, on which it is said that certain 
monks were once hung: hence the legend has arisen, 
that the peculiar form of the leaf was given in order 
to perpetuate the memory of the martyred monks. 
(‘ Bayer. Monogr. Tiliv,’ Berlin, 1861.) Itis also stated 
that this condition is not perpetuated by grafting. 
I have in my possession a leaf of Antirrhinum MAUS, 
and also a specimen of Pelargoniwm, wherein the blade 

Fic. 8.—Pitcher-shaped leaf of Pelargoniwm. 
of the leaf is funnel-like, and the petiole is cylindrical, 
not compressed, and grooved on the upper surface, as 
is usually the case. A comparison of the leaves of 
Pelargonium peltatum with those of P. cucullatum (‘Cavy. 
