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partitis Nobis. Cette variété n’a jamais été observée. Les 
corolles ont cing lobes trés étroits qui arrivent prés de la base, 
sans y atteindre néanmoins. Quelques-unes d’entre elles ort un 
stigmate 4 trois lobes eb non & deux, comme dans le Liseron des 
champs. Trouvée 4 Anteny, avec l’espéce.” 
A. Malbranche, writing from Rouen in September, me to 
the Société Botanique de France (Bull. de la Soc. Bot. vol. vi. 
(Paris), 1859, p. 719), says: “J’ai trouvé & Lormont (Ginonde), 
le 15 aofit, dans une herborisation faite en compagnie de MM 
Clos, de Rochbrune et L. Mot telay, le Convolvulus arvensis L. & 
flours quinqué-fides, réguliéres, partagées presque jusqu’d la base.” 
und 
Corolla ’’: ‘‘ The following list contains the names of the genera 
in which this separation of the petals of an ordinarily gamo 
petalous flower takes place most frequently.” n gives a 
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list of twenty-six genera, seventeen of which have the! that 
indicates the author’s personal observation; among these latter 
are Convolvulus and Pharbitis. 
In 1877 R. Caspary exhibited some specimens of what is 
apparently the same thing at Ree (Schriften der Physt- 
kalisch-wkonomischen Gesellschaft zu K eee xviii. I. pp. 95- 
6). They were found, he says, in July, 1876, b Sg Hammer, 
a schoolmaster, in a field near the coast at Ro ee nm, near Fisch 
rgin of the corolla he describes as Praits divided 
into five “ free parts, about 12 mm. long and linear-lanceolate ae 
and he — « This alyaie. of the corolla in Convolvulus 
arvensis appears not to have been hitherto noticed. Masters, it 
is true, in alae egeaadai among the genera in which it has 
Rosh observed, but does not name any species; and the case of 
Convolvulus was ant rapes to Alexander Braun, who had so wide 
a knowledge of such morphological bacon 
Un na date July 11, 1886, Freiher aoSaies sen communi- 
cates to the Deutschen Botanischen “Geuallosbat (Berichte, iv. 
Pesln, 1886, p. 258), a description of “a — variety of the 
ndweed, Convolvulus arvensis L. orolla quinque- 
partite,” rgphigh does not seem arte eee sdenticat with those we 
have as yet mentioned. He writes: “The Field Bindweed, well 
known as one of the onan weeds, has a well-dev eloped 
funnel-shaped corolla, which, as seen from below, is white or 
ne emEs and Winkel, in Rheingau, a variety occurs in one 
t, but in some plenty, in which the lighter parts are soe 
seks so that the corolla me NeTIeS a star-like form. rue 
