OF THE OVULES. 271 
M. van Tieghem’s conclusion’ from the examination 
of flowers of Tropeolum majus, in which the ovules 
were replaced by perfect peltate leaves, is that the 
ovules are foliar productions springing, not directly 
from a prolonged floral axis, as in Primulacee, but 
from branches of the axis arising from the axils of the 
carpellary leaves. 
Phyllody of the ovules has been met with most often 
in the following species : 
*Aquilegia vuigaris ! Pastinaca sativa. 
Skinneri. Torilis anthriscus. 
Delphinium crassicaule. Thysselinum palustre. 
elatum. Epilobium palustre. 
dictyocarpum. Rosa, sp. 
Ajacis. agaria alpina. 
Nigella damascena. *Trifolium repens ! 
Adonis autumnalis. Medicago maculata. 
Cheiranthus Cheiri! Desmodium canadense. 
Nasturtium, sp. Melilotus macrorhiza. 
Sisymbrium officinale! Lonicera, sp. 
Brassica napus ! Gaillardia ! 
* oleracea ! Crepis, sp. 
*Alharia officinalis ! Phyteuma odorata. 
Sinapis arvensis ! Symphytum Zeyheri. 
Turritis, sp. ¥ officinale. 
Thlaspi arvense. Stachys sylvatica. 
Erucastrum Pollichii. Anagallis arvensis. 
Stellaria media. pheenicea. 
*Reseda lutea. Lysimachia ephemerum. 
Drosera intermedia. *Primula sinensis ! 
Agrostemma Githago. Auricula. 
Stellaria media. prenitens. 
Triumfetta, sp. ! Gilia glomeruliflora. 
Tropzolum majus ! Rumex arifolius. 
Dictamnus albus. scutatus. 
Fraxinella ! Salix caprea. 
Carum carui. 
The following list of publications relating to ovular 
malformations is copied from A. Braun, ‘ Ueber Polyem- 
bryonie und Keimung von Czlobogyne’ (Appendix),* to 
which are also added some others not alluded to by 

1 «Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr.,’ 1865, p. 411. : 
* Translated in ‘ Ann. Se. Nat.,’ 4th series, t. xiv, p. 24. 
