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they are often replaced by those organs.’ A singular 
instance of this has been mentioned as occurring in 
Cakile maritima, wherein the sepals were found by 
M. Fournier to be pinnatifid like the ordinary leaves 
of the plant.” The sepals of Ranunculacee and Rosacee, 
for example, fosa, Geum, are particularly liable to this 
change. 

Fic. 129.—Flower of rose, sepals replaced by five perfect leaves; axis 
prolonged through the flower in the form of a leafy branch. 
In a species of Geranium recently examined the 
sepals presented themselves in the form of three-lobed 
leaflets; so in fuchsias and in Hpilobium hirsutum the 
sepals occasionally are not distinguishable from ordinary 
leaves (fig. 130). In roses, the change in question is a 
very frequent accompaniment of prolification (fig. 129). 
In the peach also this replacement of the sepals is 
Li Calyx tune plane non differt a foliis proxime ipsi precedentibus.” 
Wolff, ‘Theor. Gener.,’ § 114. Linn., ‘ Proleps.,’ § 6. Goethe, ‘ Ver- 
such.,’ §§ 31-38. 
2 ‘Bull. Soc. Bot. France,’ vol. viii, 1861, p. 697. 
