264 PHYLLODY 
real in the cases now to be mentioned. In Sinapis and 
in Brassica oleracea foliaceous ovules may occasionally 
be seen, attached to the placenta by long stalks. No 
trace of the nucleus is visible in these specimens. 

Fia. 140.—Sinapis, replum and ovules; the dotted line shows the 
position of the carpels. 
Grifith, in alluding to a similar case in Sinapis,} 
describes the ovules as foliaceous, and having their 
backs turned away from the axis, the raphe being next 
to the axis and representing the midrib the funicle 
corresponding to the petiole. The outer tegument 
of the ovule, according to Griffith, is a leaf united 
along its margins, but always more or less open at 
its apex. No inversion can, therefore, really take place 
in anatropous ovules, but the blade of the leaf is bent 
back on the funicle, with which its margins also cohere. 
Caspary, in an elaborate paper on phyllomorphy 
occurring in Trifolium repens, figures fohaceous ovules 
springing from the edge of an open, leafy carpel. The 
nucleus of the ovule, in these cases, appears to origi- 
nate as a little bud from the surface of the leafy 
ovule (figs. 141, 142). 
1 «Notule,’ p. 125, atlas, pl. xxxv; and ‘Journals of Travels,’ 1847, 
p. 475, Lonicera. 
