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Parrot Tulips, &c. This is associated with a continual bifurcation of the 

 cords within the petals. They do not always actually reach the margin ; 

 but this grows out into irregular points, in sympathy, so to say, with the 

 bifurcating cords below. A precisely similar process occurs in the style of 

 Crocus, producing the ''fimbriated " stigmas of that plant. 



Fig. 105.— Portion of corona of Daffodil, Fk;. lOG.— Portion of corolla of Cvcla- 



with crest, and fimbriated margin. men, with crest. 



A second form is seen in the cords sending out branches actually from 

 the surface, when they are clothed with membrane ; and a " crest " is 

 formed, running down the line of the cord, either on the outside of the 

 corolla, as sometimes occurs in Primroses and on the trumpet or corona 

 of Daftbdils (fig. 105) ; or inside, that is, the upper surface of the petal, in 

 Cyclamen (fig. 106) and Begonia (fig. 107). 



A similar phenomenon is seen in the sepals of the Crested Rose 

 (^fig.UOS), and in leaves of Cabbages, as well as on those of the plant which 



Fig. 107.— Petal of Begonia, with crest. Fig. 108. — Rose with crested sepals. 



bears " fimbriated " corollas in Cyclamen, known as C. persicum fimbri- 

 atum. 



A Cabbage was figured in 1597 by Gerarde in his " Herball " (p. 243), 

 and described as follows : — Brassica prolifera, the Double Cole wort, " hath 

 many great and large leaues, wherupon do grow heere and there other 

 small lagged leaues, as it were made of ragged shreds and iagges set vpon 



