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Fig. 1, l represents a fully developed petal. 
7. It was frequently noticed that when only four sepals were 
present the place of the fifth was taken by a more or less normally 
formed petal. It was always the sepal innermost in the whorl 
which was thus replaced. 
8. In one flower with four normal sepals and no normal 
petals or staminodesa perianth-leaf, half sepaloid, half petaloid.was 
found occupying the position of a fifth sepal and internal to the 
others, Fig. 2, m. The lower part was green, externally hairy, and 
sepaloid, the upper yellow, glabrous, and petaloid. There was no 
trace of a nectory. 
9. In one flower, which unfortunately had partly fallen to 
pieces when gathered, one of the sepals was replaced by a leaf 
intermediate between a sepal and an involucral bract. It was 
greenish-yellow and hairy on the back only, like the sepals, but was 
regularly lobed (Fig. 2, n). 
Specimens of Anemone coronaria with a fully developed sepal in 
the position of a segment of the involucre have several times been 
reported in cultivated plants, but no previous record has been 
found of the occurrence of this abnormality in wild specimens. 
Anemone coronaria is a native of South Europe and the Orient. In 
Palestine it is one of the commonest and most beautiful of the 
native flowers, and is probably the “ lilies of the field ” of the 
