NOE. 
Durinea the progress of the foregoing pages through the press, 
several additional illustrations of particular malformations have come 
under notice. Some of the more important of these may here be 
recorded. 
Fasciation (see p. 11).—The following plants may be added to the 
list:—Acer eriocarpum, Arabis albida, Brassica oleracea, var., Guarea, 
sp., Artabotrys sp. In all, with the exception of the first-named, the 
fasciation occurred in the inflorescence. In some species of Artabotrys, 
indeed, fasciation and curvation of the inflorescence are common. 
Synanthy (p. 39)—Several additional instances of adhesion of two or 
more flowers in Calanthe vestita, OC. Veitehti, and other forms of this 
genus may be cited. These furnish further illustrations of the much 
greater liability of some plants to particular changes as compared with 
others. Scilla bifolia, Gagea arvensis, and Viola odorata may be added 
to the list of synanthic plants. 
Alterations of placentation, &c. (see pp. 98, 483).—M. Casimir De Can- 
dolle, in a letter to the author, dated March 8th, 1869, thus writes of the 
existence of a double row of carpels in Pyrus spectabilis and Crateegus 
Oxyacantha, ‘a longitudinal section of a double flower of Pyrus specta- 
bilis shows two rows of carpels, placed one above another. The arrange- 
ment of the vascular bundles shows that the upper row is external in 
relation to the lower series. The carpels of the latter are wholly - 
coalescent as in a pear, while those of the upper verticil are only par- 
tially coherent or sometimes quite distinct. The placentation is con- 
stantly axile in the inferior row and parietal in the upper one. The 
number of ovules in each carpel of the superior row varies greatly, 
and they are often, but not always, inserted in two longitudinal ranks, 
as is constantly the case in the lower carpels. Double flowers of 
Crategus Oxyacantha present the same anomalies.” For analogous 
instances in Digitalis, see p. 98. See also p. 580, Sawifraga. 
Prolification, p. 120.—A. P. De Candolle, ‘“ Organographie Végétale,” 
tab. 40, figures an instance of suppression of one lobe of the ovary in 
Tris chinensis, and of the presence at the base of the flower of an 
