FORKING AND FASCIATION. 



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amongst flowers. Perhaps the best-known case of this 

 is seen in the mountain scorpion-grass (Myosotis aljpes- 



Fio. 78. — Myosotis alpestris var. Victoria (Mountain Scorpion-grass). 

 Diagram of ring-fasciated flower, showing also pleiotaxy of the 

 normal corolla. (Diagrammatic.) ca, calyx ; ca 1 , inverted calyx ; 

 co, corolla ; co 1 inverted corolla ; st, stamen ; ov, ovary; or 1 , inverted 

 ovary ; ol, ovule. 



iris var. Victoria), affecting the terminal flower of the 

 inflorescence. The abnormality is exactly the same 



Fig. 79. — Myosotis alpestris var. Victoria. Longitudinal section of 

 ring-fasciated flower. (Diagrammatic.) ca, calyx; ca\ inverted 

 calyx; co, corolla; co x , inverted corolla; st, stamen; st 1 , inverted 

 stamen ; ov, ovary ; ov 1 , inverted ovary ; ol, ovule ; ol 1 , ovule of 

 inverted ovary. 



as that above described for the capitnlnm of Chrysan- 

 themum so that the account need not be repeated here. 



