Flowers of St achy s sylvatica , Linn. 417 
was found to replace the contents of the ovary. Cases were found in which 
the ovary had been changed into two leaf-like structures, but they were 
never so much like a leaf as those that Bartlett figures. There seems little 
doubt that the condition is carried over from year to year vegetatively. 
The plants here shortly described are probably similar to those mentioned 
by Townsend in his ‘Flora of Hampshire’ as var. viridiflora , and regarded 
by him as abnormal. 
Table V. Statistical Examination of Open Flowers in the Autumn of 1919 
{near High Wycombe ). 
Time. Total. Normal. Abnormal . V s . 
a.i. 
C. 
s. 
R. 
F. 
Y. 
X. 
; (a) Blacksmith^ s Lane : (light period from 4 p.m.) 
iSept. 1.7th. 144 128 16 
2 (M.) 
4 -M 
2M 
M 
M 
... [ 5 i (M.) 77 (S.)] 
4 S 
2 S 
(s.p.) 
Sept. 19th. 298 287 11 
7 (S.) 
M 
2 M 
M 
... [106 (M.) 181 (S.)] 
i Sept. 20th. 326 289 37 
J 4 
7 M 
2 M 
M 
3 M 
... 
M 
... [ia 4 (M.) 165 (S.)] ... 
[5 (M.) 9 (S-)] 
6 S 
S 
2 S 
... 
(b) Blacksmith s Arms Lane : (light period from 
] Sept. 17th. 98 96 2 
11.30 a.m.) 
2 (M.) 
... [35 (M.) 61 (S.)] 
... 
... 
) (c) Plantation Hedge : (light period until about 4. 
Sept. 1 6th. 3,37 223 14 
CM 
0 
4 * 
, N 
cn 
3 M 
2 M 
M 
... [96 (M.) 127 (S.)] ... 
3 s 
S 
... 
! Plantation Hedge : 
Sept. 18th. 233 210 23 
18 
3 M 
M 
... [82 (M.) 128 (S.)] ... 
[6 (M.). 1 2 (S)] 
1 S 
... 
(d) Naphill Chapel Road : (light period from about 4) 
Sept. 18th. 54 54 
... [17 (M.) 37 (S.)] 
... 
(e) Bungalow Corner : (light period until about 2 
1 Sept. 17th. 98 98 
p.m.) 
... [38 (M.) 60 (S.)] 
... 
(f) Cook's Hall Wood : 
Sept. 17th. 20 19 1 
S 
[1 (M.) 18 (S.)] 
... 
v (g) Walters Ask High Road : (light period until about 11.30) 
Sept. 17th. 44 39 5 5 
... [10 (M.) 29 (S.)] ... 
[2 (M.) 3 (S.)] 
... 
Totals 1,552 1,443 109 
52 
2 2 
7 
1 
'5 
3 
5 
4 
M. — middle flower. S. = side flower. V. 
, = bifurcated upper 
lips. 
C. = 
only slightly opened flowers. 
R. = reduced number of parts, s. = symmetrical dower. X. = unclassified abnormals. Y. = lower lip of corolla 
much divided. 
> 
It should be mentioned here that a variety of Stachys sylvatica has 
been found at Shoreham which differs from the type mostly in that there 
are no markings on the lower lip of the corolla. This plant will be described 
elsewhere. There is no evidence that any of the plants described here are 
hybrids. 
