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the one exhibited bore four fronds with digitate extremities, one 

 frond with a crisped margin (var. erispum), and one frond as 

 flat as in the wild state. (Fig. 76.) 



Tomatos with Supernumerary Carpels. — Dr. Bonavia sent 

 two specimens, one consisting of four carpels, which, instead of 

 being coherent to form a single fruit, were only united at the 

 base, and therefore nearly apocarpous ; the other had several 

 extra carpels issuing out of the centre above. These formed a 

 whorl of carpels in addition to the normal series. It resembled 

 the 1 Mellarose Orange ' in this respect. 



Poppyliead with Pistillody of the Stamens. — Herr J. K. 

 Budde exhibited a fruit of Papaver somniferum with a complete 

 whorl of miniature carpels around the base, these being meta- 

 morphosed stamens. This peculiarity is well known ; but it is 

 interesting to hear that Prof, de Vries has succeeded in fixing it 

 by selection, so that this monstrosity now comes true from seed. 

 A similar phenomenon is common among Wallflowers. "With 

 reference to hereditary monstrosities, Prof. Bailey observed that 

 a species of Echinops with a fasciated and twisted stem, as also 

 the spirally twisted variety of the Fuller's Teazle, can be now 

 perpetuated from seed. Prof. Hen slow inquired if the Weeping 

 Ash was known to be peipetuated by seed, as of thousands of 

 seedlings in his garden at Ealing none ever showed any inclina- 

 tion to weep, though the late Prof. J. S. Henslow found a slight 

 tendency to weep to exist for two or three years in his experi- 

 ments at Hitcham : but the plants grew erect afterwards. Mr. 

 Wilks observed, on the other hand, that out of multitudes of 

 chance seedlings one young tree a few years old, at Shirley, 

 had begun to show a tendency to weep. 



Crassulaceous Hybrid. — "Mr. Veitch sent trusses of flowers, 

 of a new hybrid, raised by Mr. Seden, between Kalosanthes 

 coccinea 2 and Rochea falcata £. The flowers of the hybrid 

 were small, as in the female parent, but the colour approached 

 that of the male. In many points it was intermediate between 

 the two parents. 



Gattleya granulosa, Dimerous. — Dr. Masters exhibited, on 

 the part of Mr. Cobb, a blossom with its parts in twos, there 

 being two large sepals, two lips, Ac— not a rare phenomenon in 

 ordinarily trimerous flowers, as Iris, Ac. 



Hybrid Xumphceas. — Dr. Masters exhibited several varieties, 



