316 Poulton: Abnormal Flowers of the Foxglove. 
The accompanying illustration (Fig. I) is taken from a photo- 
graph of the inflorescence, from which it will be seen that all the 
flowers differ greatly in appearance from the typical Foxglove. 
The first striking feature is the corolla with its spreading 
ribbon-like segments, which in the mature flower curl back- 
wards. The splitting of the corolla into segments causes the 
flower to appear very open and exposed, many of the stamens 
Fig. 1l.—Abnormal flowers of Foxglove ; for details see text. 
projecting from between the corolla lobes. This is in striking 
contrast to the ordinary flower, in which the stamens are 
completely hidden by the slightly-lobed corolla. The indi- 
vidual flowers exhibited a very interesting structure. In 
every instance the calyx, with its small posterior sepal, and 
the gynecium were in exact agreement with the type. The 
departures from the normal concern only the corolla and the 
andreecium, and are illustrated in Fig. II., 1-21. The corolla 
consisted of a varying number of lobes, all joined at the base 
to form a tube, constricted towards its lower end as in the 
ordinary Foxglove (Fig. II., 4). In the majority of flowers the 
Naturalist, 
