STAMINODY. 301 
antheriferous.' Moggridge figures a flower of Ophiys 
insectifera in which the rostellate process was replaced 
by an anther.’ 
Mohl remarks that the change of pistils into stamens 
is more common in monocarpellary pistils than it is in 
those which are made up of several carpels. It seems 
clear that in this transformation the lobes of the anther 
and the development of pollen have no relation to the 
production of ovules. 
Staminody of the accessory organs of the flower—The scales 
that are met with in some plants, either as excrescences 
from the petals, or as imperfect representatives of 
stamens or other organs, are occasionally staminoid ; 
thus the scales of Saponaria officinalis, of Silene, 
Neriwm Oleander, the rays of Passijflora, the corona of 
Narcissus, have all been observed occasionally to bear 
anthers.” In the case of Narcissus the loose spongy 
tissue of the corona seems to have the nearest analogy 
to the anther-lobes, while the prolonged connective 
is more like the ordinary segments of the perianth in 
texture. The species in which this change may most 
frequently be observed are, N. poeticus, N. incompara- 
bilis, and N. montanus. 
M. Bureau found in some flowers of Antirrhinwm 
majus two petal-like bodies standing up in front of, or 
opposite to the two petals of the upper lip,‘ and similar 
developments m which each of the two adventitious 
segments are surmounted by an anther may be met 
with frequently. It does not follow because these 
organs bear anthers that they are morphologically true 
stamens. They are really scales, &c., taking on them- 
selves accidentally the characters proper to stamens. 
1 *Kuphorbiaceae,’ p. 205. 
2 Seemann’s ‘ Journ. Bot.,’ iv, p. 168, tab. 47, f. 1. 
3 Moquin-Tandon, 1. c., 220, Passiflora. Masters, ‘Journ. Linn. Soc.,’ 
1857, p. 159, Saponaria. Seemann’s ‘Journ. Botany,’ vol. ii, p. 107, 
Narcissus. 
+ * Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr.,’ 1857, p. 452. 
