274. PHYLLODY. 
the instances to be now mentioned were not strictly 
cases of chloranthy. 
Seringe’ has described a malformation in Diplotavis 
tenuifolia in which all the floral organs were replaced 
by sixteen distinct leaflets which had preserved their 
proper relative position. The Crucifere, of which 
family the last-named plant is a member, are particu- 
larly lable to this malfcrmation, as also are the 
Rosacee, as will be seen from the following illustrations. 
Roses indeed often exhibit alterations of this kind as 
the commencement of prolification. There is also in 
cultivation a rose’ called the green rose, ‘‘ Rose bengale 
a fleurs vertes,” in which all the parts of the flower are 
represented by leaves. One of the most remarkable 
features in this plant is, that the carpels have often 
two ovules on their margins. Now, Payer, in his 
“Organogénie,” has shown that at a certain period 
of the development of the ordinary rose flower the 
ovary contains two collateral ovules, of which one 

Fic. 151.—a. Open leafy carpel of ‘green rose,” with two deformed 
ovules. 0b. Ovule separate. c. Primine removed. d. Secondine and 
nucleus, with the bulbous end that pr eels through the micropyle. 


1 * Bull. Bot.,’ t. i, p. 6. 
2 oe ‘Theor. Horticult.,’ ed. 2, p. 84, f. 17. 
