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HowiT a lu'iul liatl tcrnu il anil >hnl (Uit with :i socoiiil similarly 

 tilia|K'd ^rvvw llowcr l»a\ ini:; vol aiiothor slioot from its crntri', 

 ami alxive ihis a secoiul llowcr exactly resembling the lirst, 

 havinu; five stamens and anthers witli an aj)pearance of pollen 

 contiiined in them. 



It happened uj)»>n tliis occasion that these singular facts were 

 illustrated by the ixhibition of a specimen of Common White 

 Clover, (i'rifolium repens) in which all the parts of all the flowers 

 were converted into t;Teen trifoliolate leaves. '1 he cases of 

 pears, and applet, in which one fruii grows out of another, were 

 mentioned as otlier analogous instances, and reference was made 

 to a Ncry extraordinary mallormation in the I'otatoe, specimens of 

 which had been sent to the Society by the late President. 



In this Potatoe, while many of the flowers were perfect, and 

 produced fruit without any thing remarkable being observed in 

 them, others formtd tubers between the fruit and the calyx, as is 

 shown in the following cut, where Fig. 1. represents a cluster of 

 fruit and tubers as they appeared when growing, and Fig. 2. a 

 single flower, separated from the remainder, with the ripe fruit 

 in the middle, a single tuber on one side, and on the otlicr side 

 a tuber itself sprouting into other tubers. 



Fig. 1. 



