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Four flowers were furnished with ob tars Aaa at the base of 
each BP in addition to the development of the usual spur; three 
were developed to such an extent as to form eidiaeatery spurs. 
V. ericetorum Schrader. 
Of the 1000 examples of the flowers of this ce be greater 
number were gathered on Farley Green, near War am, and 
the remainder on the downs near "Glaidok. Those nig this latter 
locality exhibited but few variations. Four flowers showed a 
tendency to lobing of the petals; one der ticie: a very ee spur 
not exceeding the sepalline appendages; and one showed, in addi- 
tion to the usual spur, two petals protuberant at the base, sagneat: 
ing incipient spurs. Among the cig oo sie at Farley mre 
peace was rife. The normal for as represented by 4 
flowers of the number eer hae! ant five showed sa 
Sabatien ek at the bases of the petals. Approximation to a regular 
form of flower was seen among seven flowers, where the petals 
assumed different positions from the usual, by reason of the 
- posterior and lateral petals (and sometimes the spurred petal) being 
recurved or reflexed. Nineteen flowers were characterized by the 
two upper petals being very much reduced in size, some, indeed, 
being mere rudi ments. Not merely reduction in the size of the 
ieiterior petals, but reduction in the number of sepals, petals, and 
8 ach, was exhibited by thirteen flowers, and a 
similar reduction (except in the number of stamens) was shown by 
th hers. Certain curious aberrations appeared among these 
Four flowers possessed either a sepaloid petal, or a sepal partaking 
of the character of a petal, in addition to the four sepals and 
petals. In the case of a sepal becoming petaloid, characters such 
as the sacs at the bases of the petals, and the distinctive tufts of 
hairs of the lateral petals, appeared. One tetramerous flower 
showed an abnormal growth of the orange-coloured prolongation of 
the anther, this becoming enlarged and purplish. A trimerous 
condition characterized five flowers, and these also possessed 
additional petaloid sepals. One had developed a shrivelled peta- 
a structure in lieu of the missing stamens. Mention has been 
e of a reduction in the size of the two upper petals, and six 
fowaes were noted ae either one or both upper petals missing. 
ee again, as & ps Sita petaloid development of the 
er-connective ha: 66 rred. The following account of the 
stiabactetiatiod of certain Howat that I found rather difficult to 
classify, gives some idea of the extraordinary variation that 
occurred :— 
a. Die sepal cere and with a tuft of hairs. 6. Five sepals; 
four shad five stamens, one steri rile a nd half- stamen, half-petal. 
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sepals and three petals, plus one sepal-like organ, produced at the 
base and inserted at the level of the sepals. Four perfect stamens 
processes, one of them rudimentary. d. Five sepals; four normal 
petals and a fifth organ petaloid to the chains of being expanded 
Journat or Botany.—Vou, 42. (May, 1904.] L 
