FRUIT GROWS INTO BRANCHES. 



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part of the stamens, deyeloped in tlie form of leafy scales, 

 adhere round the centre of the flower, which has lengthened 

 somewhat like a branch, while the remainder of the stamens 

 and the carpels are concealed within the summit, in the form 

 of withered rudiments. The constitutional tendency to fleshi- 

 ness, which is the characteristic of the Pear, is not lost, in this 

 or either of the two other cases, but is preserved throughout, 

 only diminishing towards the eye. 



Fig. XXI. 



Transformed Pears. 



Fig. XXII. 



In Fig. XXII. the phenomena take a somewhat different 

 direction, the leafy tendency being greater in some of the 

 sepals, but the tendency to acquire succulence having been 

 preserved in a far greater degree ; as if the disturbing cause, 

 whatever it may have been, which originally prevented the 

 young parts from becoming petals, &c., and which forced the 

 centre to lengthen like a branch, was effectually withdrawn 

 and overcome by the tendency to become succulent, which 

 the parts had already acquired, when the disturbing cause 

 began to act. 



