riU CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Cleistogamic Flowers. 



General character of cleistogatnio flowers— List of the genera pro- 

 ducing such flowers, and their distribution in the vegetable 

 series — Viola, description of the cleistogamic flowers in the 

 several species ; their fertility compared with that of the perfect 

 flowers — Oxalis acetosella — 0. sensitiva, three forms of cleisto- 

 gamic flowers — Vandellia — Ononis — Impatiens — ^Drosera — Mis- 

 cellaneous observations on various other cleistogamic plants — 

 Anemophilous species producing cleistogamic flowers — Leersia, 

 perfect flowers rarely developed — Summary and concluding 

 remarks on the origin of cleistogamic flowers — ^The chief con- 

 clusions which may be drawn from the observations in this 

 volume Page 310-345 



IsDEX 346-352 



