OF STAMENS TO PISTILS. 35 
quent occurrence among Orchids. I have observed 
cases of the adhesion of the seements of the perianth to 
the stamen in Ophrys aranifera, Odontoglossum, sp. 
&e. It is the ordimary condition in 
Gongora and some other genera. | 
have seen it also in Liliwm lancifolvwm. 
Some forms of Crocus, occasionally met 
with, present a very singular appear- 
ance, owing to the adhesion of the 
stamens to the outer segments of the 
perianth, the former, moreover, bemg 
partially petaloid in aspect. M. de 
la Vaud' speaks of a similar union in 
Tigridia pavonia. Morren® describes 
a malformation of J'uchsia where the 
petals were so completely adherent to 
the stamens, that the former were 
dragged out of their ordinary position, 
so as to become opposite to the sepals ; 
the fusion was here so complete that 
no trace of it could be seen externally. fyg 12, Crocus. 
It should be remarked that it was Adhesion of petaloid 
the outer series of stamens that were st@mens to perianth. 
thus fused.® 

Adhesion of stamens to pistils——'The stamens also may be 
united to the pistils, as in gynandrous plants. Moquin 
speaks of such a case in a Scabious; M. Clos in 
Verbascum australe.s I have seen cases of the same 
kind in the Wallflower, Cowslip (Primula veris), Tulip, 
Orange, in the garden Azalea and other plants. 
Miscellaneous adhesions.—Sometimes organs, compara- 
tively speaking, widely separated one from the other, 
become united together. Miquel has recorded the 
union of a stigma with the middle lobe of the lower 
‘Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr.,’ 1861, p. 147. 
‘Bull. Acad. Belg.,’ vol. xviii, part ii, p. 498. 
1 
3 See also Prillieux, ‘ Bull. Sac. Bot. Fr.,’ 1861, p. 195. 
4 *Mém. Acad. Toulouse,’ 5th series, vol. ii. 
