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of certain Species of Primula. 
Variations other than numerical. It was only -to be ex- 
pected that abnormalities, other than have been considered 
up to the present, would be seen during the examination of 
a large number of flowers. 
It is proposed to mention them briefly now. 
Primula veris , Linn. No striking monstrosities were ob- 
served in this plant. A few flowers were seen in which one 
member of a whorl, either calyx or corolla, was smaller than 
its fellows. More frequently the filament of a stamen was 
divided into a Y _s h a P e d structure, each branch bearing an 
anther. 
Primula vulgaris , Huds. In 1898 the only other abnor- 
malities seen were as follows. Single sepals or petals were 
sometimes (five instances) smaller than the others, and in 
one case the petals of a flower were in three distinct sizes. 
The style varied much in length, thus the stigma in long- 
styled flowers was sometimes protruded out of the corolla 
tube, and sometimes was only just above the stamens. In 
the short-styled flowers two instances were noted in which 
the stigma was about level with the stamens. 
1899. Monstrosities were much commoner this year. The 
corolla frequently had a petal lobed in the manner illustrated 
in No. 5) Fig. 20). The exact number of such instances 
was six, three cases occurring in the long-styled flowers, and 
three in the short. Of the former two specimens possessed 
six petals and one five ; and of the latter one corolla had 
four petals, one five, and the other six. 
Two flowers were seen in which one petal was inserted 
in front of another. No. 6 illustrates a similar peculiarity, 
but here the small and more internally placed petal was 
alternate: in this flower (No. 6, Fig 20) there was a further 
abnormality consisting in one stamen being carried up to the 
irregularly placed petal on a filament partly adnate to the 
corolla tube, thus forming a rough transition between the 
long and short-styled flowers. (It will be seen from the 
figure that the flower was of the long-styled type.) This 
particular blossom possessed six sepals, the numbers of the 
