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FLOWERS BECOME EOSETTES OF LEAVES. 



ordinary braucK Fig. XXV. shows the state of P^; J^/J^^^^St 

 nepalensis with their fiowers changing to branches : » ^^^^^J.™^^ 

 orLaxy condition ; at 6 it is partly changed xn a shght ^e^^^' ^^ ^ J^ 



the sepi, petals, and stamens are o^^^^f ^ ^^° J^"^^^' ^"* tut ^S 

 are little Changed; at d the sepals, petals, and stamens are hut httle 



Fig. XXV.— Transformed Potentilla. 



altered, hut the receptacle of the fruit is lengthening into a branch, and 

 is coTered by the carpels partly converted into leaves, and some of them 

 near the apex producing flowers from their axils ; finally, at e, the 

 whole of the floral apparatus is changed into a rosette of leaves. A 

 monstrous Foxglove has been seen to present analogous appearances. 



