236 ABNORMAL FLOWERS OF CEPHALANTHERA GRANDIFLORA. 
ABNORMAL FLOWERS OF CEPHALANTHERA GRANDI- - 
FLORA. 
By F. I. Warner, F.L.S. 
Durie a short botanical ramble in the neighbourhood of Sevenoaks 
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in the latter part of June, I gathered severa specimens of Cephal- — 
usual number and arrangement of the flor. 
all other respects all three labella were precisely similar to that in an 
ill, I thin 
that these organs are in fact abnormally developed stamens.* It is 
ing the size or shape of the column. In all the flo ers, however, 
which I examined I particularly noticed that the pseudo-labella were 
a a ee ae 
* See especial Y @ most instructive inst f similar devel t ina flower 
of Ophrys aranifera described by Dr. Masters, Journ, Lin. Soc. Bot. viii., 207. 
Tt “Fertilization of Orchids,” p. 292, 
¢ Journ, Lin. Soc. Bot, Viii., 132, 
