266 PHYLLODY . 
cup formed by the confluence of four glanduliferous 
hairs and the concave leaf and the perfect ovule. 
Brongniart’ records ovules of Delphiniwm elatwm 
existing in the form of marginal lobes of the car- 
pellary leaf itself; so that each ovule corresponds 
to a lobe or large tooth of this leaf, the funiculus, as 
well as the raphe, being formed by the median nerve 
of the lateral lobe. M. Clos? mentions a similar in- 
stance in Aquilegia Skinneri ; and another is figured in 
Lindley’s ‘ Hlements of Botany,’ p. 88, f. 180. 
Cramer,’ from an examination of several ovular mal- 
formations, as well as from the investigation of the 
mode of evolution of the ovules, is led to a similar 
conclusion with reference to the production of ovules 

¥ie@. 143.—Portion of an open foliaceous carpel of Delphiniwm, with 
ovules on the lobules. 


' «Comptes Rendus,’ vol. xviii, March 25th, 1864, and ‘ Ann. Se. Nat.,’ 
3 ser., vol. ii, p. 32. 
2 «Mém. Acad. Sc. Toulous.,’ ser. 5, vol. iii. 
8 *Bildungsabweich, Pflanz. Famil.,’ p. 89, tab. xi. 
