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10: 
GENERAL NOTES. 
BOTANY. 
TRANSFORMATION OF ANTHERS INTO Ovariges.—In Gray’s Man- 
ual, under Salix livida, we read, “A transformation of the anthers 
into imperfect ovaries is frequently observable in this species,” and 
in the second edition, was added, “and _ occasionally in gee: 
others.” Lately I found a Salix er which no doubt is 
female, and has on many branches moncecious catkins, the won 
fully developed, some with a few ARONA flowers between the 
pistillate, others with only a few pistillate flowers between many 
staminate ones, quite irregularly distributed, sometimes all the 
upper ones and a few in the middle and at the bare peng 
This would agree (partly) with what Wichura said, in, 1847, in 
paper on the morphology of the pistil of Salix. He ae 
“The monstrous transformation of the pistil into stamina shows 
that the pistil consists of two laterally situated —_ The style 
late. 
