44 



BOTANICAL GAZETTE 



[JANUARY 



perfection, produced in groups having a superficial resemblance to 



Scolop 



Scolopendrium 



time without fertilization. Lowe's 



?> 



Fig. 8. 



Abnormal flower of Cattleya labiata. After 



a colored drawing by O. Ames. 



9. The exact char- 



acter of 



homoeotic 



>/ 



pilosis is of I 



predominant 

 meaning 



general statement. A plant of Cattleya labiata, formerly grown in 

 tne greenhouse, ann^ ^ <.u- i_i _ _ J & 



formly exhibit 



ory 



of the calyx (fig. 8). The 



three r p alhf in „ — - ™ £«• £^ 



— w ere broad en eH q^ +1^; . J 



report 



3>Journ. Linn. Soc. 32:536. l89 6. 



imitation 



Druerv 















native generations in an interesting manner.* 2 "We have here 



consequently a posi- 

 tion as nearly as j 

 possible intermediate 

 between sporophore 

 and oophore, the 

 sporophoric character 

 distinctly existing in 

 the shape of a circle 

 of stalked fronds gen- 

 erated spirally from a 

 regular axis of growth, 

 while the oophoric 

 character as distinctly 

 appears in the fact 

 that these fronds are 

 practically stalked 

 prothalli bearing the 

 sexual apparatus 



proper to them 





