An Unusual Plant of Cheiranthus cheiri L. 245 
Masters ( 3 ) states that de Candolle mentions such a plant in his 
Prodromus as a distinct variety under the name of gynantherus. A 
description of a similar flower by Brongniart ( 4 ) is quoted. This, how¬ 
ever, differs in some details from the case described above. The 
“ staminate carpels ” were in some cases fused into two lateral bundles 
of three each, and in many instances the two outer stamens were 
entirely suppressed. He states that the two shorter stamens undergo 
change into carpels later than the longer ones, a point which the above 
specimen did not illustrate. 
Addendum 
Figs. 14-16 are taken from a different wallflower plant, growing 
in the vicinity of the one described above. They represent the gy- 
naecium of the only abnormal flower in the whole inflorescence. The 
peculiarity here is the 3-carpellary ovary with a 3-fid stigma (Fig. 14). 
In the section, three partition walls are seen dividing the ovary into 
three chambers. At the base of the ovary, arising from the septum 
was an out-growth resembling a “staminate carpel” of the above 
specimen (Fig. 16). The edges were folded inwards, the outside 
was downy, and the tip was covered with the minute excrescences 
characteristic of the typical stigma. 
REFERENCES 
(1) Principles of Plant Teratology (Ray Society), 2, p. 184. 
(2) Op. cit., p. 182. 
( 3 ) Vegetable Teratology (Ray Society), pp. 305-6. 
(4) Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 8, p. 453. 
