SYNANTHY. 4] 
cited by Reinsch,' where two female flowers of Salix 
cinerea were so united with a male one as to produce 
an hermaphrodite blossom. 
It follows, from what has been said, that the number 
of parts that are met with im these fused flowers varies 
according to the number of blossoms and of the organs 
which have been suppressed. Comparatively rarely do 
we find all the organs present; but when two flowers 
are united together we find every possible variety 
between the number of parts naturally belonging to 
the two flowers and that belonging to a single one. 
Sometimes instances are met with wherein the calyx 
does not present the normal number of parts, while the 
other parts of the flower are inexcess. I have seen in 
a Calceolaria a single calyx, with the ordinary number 
of sepals, enclosing two corollas, adherent simply by 
their upper lips, and containing stamens and pistils in 
the usual way. In this instance, then, the sepals of 
one flower must have been suppressed, while no such 
suppression took place m the other parts of the flower. 
Professor Charles Morren paid special attention to 
the various methods in which the flowers of Calceolarias 
may become fused, and to the complications that ensue 
from the suppression of some 
parts, the complete amalgamation 
of others, &c. Referring the reader 
to the Belgian savant’s papers for 
the full details of the changes ob-. 
served, it is only necessary to 
allude to a few of the most salient 
features. 
Sometimes the upper lips of two 
flowers are fused into one, the two 
lower remaining distinct. In other — yyg. 18-gynanthie 
cases, the upper lip disappears  flowersofCalceolaria in 
altogether, while there are two Eo eae ae peed 
lower lps placed opposite one single lower one. 
another; of the stamens, some- 
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