PETALODY. 287 
cissus, Colchicum, and Crocus. M. Fournier’ describes 
a flower of Narcissus Tazetta from within the normal 
perianth of which sprang a second one, equally pro- 
vided with a cup and occupying the space usually filled 
by the stamens. Flowers of Narcissus poeticus may 
also be met with in which the stamens are replaced by 
six distinct segments exactly resembling those of the 
perianth in miniature.’ 
From an examination of these flowers it becomes 
evident that petalification is brought about in different 
flowers in different ways ; sometimes it is the filament 
which becomes petaloid, sometimes the anther-lobes, ( 
while at other times it is the connective which assumes 
the appearance of petals.’ For instance, in Solanwm 

Fic. 154.—Double columbine, Aquilegia—petalody of the filament. 

1 «Bull. Soc. Bot. France,’ 1859, vol. vi, Pp. 199. 
2 Seeman’s ‘Journal of Botany,’ vol. iii, p. 105; also Morren, ‘ Bull. 
Acad. Belg.,’ vol. xx, part 2, p. 264. 
3 Shige ioc ‘Bull. Belg.,’ xvill, p. 503. 
