E-text prepared by Charlene Taylor, Leonard Johnson, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 23354-h.htm or 23354-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/3/3/5/23354/23354-h/23354-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/3/3/5/23354/23354-h.zip) Transcriber's note: Words enclosed between equal signs were in bold face (=bold=). A list of corrections is at the end of the book. The Ray Society. Instituted MDCCCXLIV. [Illustration] _This volume is issued to the Subscribers to the_ RAY SOCIETY _for the Year_ 1868. London: MDCCCLXIX. VEGETABLE TERATOLOGY, An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by MAXWELL T. MASTERS, M.D., F.L.S. With Numerous Illustrations by E. M. Williams. London: Published for the Ray Society by Robert Hardwicke, 192. Piccadilly. MDCCCLXIX. TO JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER, M.D., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., ETC. ETC. DIRECTOR OF THE ROYAL GARDENS, KEW, This Volume IS GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED. TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAGE INTRODUCTION xxi BOOK I. DEVIATIONS FROM ORDINARY ARRANGEMENT 1 PART I.--UNION OF ORGANS 8 CHAPTER I. COHESION 9 Cohesion between axes of same plant, 9--Fasciation, 11--Cohesion of foliar organs, 21--Of margins of single organs, 21--Tubular petals, 23--Cohesion of several organs by their margins, 25--Of the sepals, 27--Of the petals, 28--Of the stamens, 29--Of the pistils, 29--Ascidia or pitchers, 30. CHAPTER II. ADHESION 32 Adhesion of foliar organs, 32--Of leaves by their surfaces, 33--Of foliar to axile organs, 34--Of sepals to petals, 34--Of stamens to petals, 34--Of stamens to pistils, 35--Miscellaneous adhesions, 35--Of fruit to branch, 36--Synanthy, 36--Syncarpy, 45--Synspermy, 50--Between axes of different plants of same species, 50--And of different species, 55--Synophty. PART II.--INDEPENDENCE OF ORGANS 58 CHAPTER I. FISSION 59 Fission of axile organs, 60--Of foliar organs, 61--Of petals, 66--Of stamens, 68--Of carpels, 68. CHAPTER II. DIALYSIS 69 Dialysis of margins of individual parts, 70--Of margins of parts of same whorl-calyx, 70--Of corolla, 71--Of stamens, 73--Of carpels, 73. CHAPTER III. SOLUTION 76 Solution of calyx from ovary, 77--Of stamens from petals, 82.