Vegetable Teratology: An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of PlantsMasters, Maxwell T. (Maxwell Tylden)
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Vegetable Teratology: An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
Masters, Maxwell T. (Maxwell Tylden)
Plants -- Abnormalities
Von Martius mentions the occurrence of three anthers
(_naturaliter conformatae_) in _Orchis morio_.[447] Richard,
as cited by Moquin-Tandon, Lindley, and others, describes and
figures a peloria of _Orchis latifolia_ with regular triandrous
flowers.[448]
The writer has examined, in the Royal Gardens at Kew, a flower
of _Cattleya crispa_ in which were three stamens, the central
one normal; the two lateral ones, belonging probably to the
inner whorl, were in appearance like the lateral petals, and
one of them was adherent to the central perfect column.
Duchartre[449] mentions a flower of _Cattleya Forbesii_ in
which there were two labella in addition to the ordinary one,
the column being in its normal condition. From the analogy of
other cases it would appear as if the additional labella in
this instance were the representatives of two stamens of the
outer whorl. Beer likewise has put on record the existence of a
triandrous _Cattleya_.[450]
A specimen of _Catasetum eburneum_ forwarded by Mr. Wilson
Saunders was normal so far as the sepals and two lateral petals
were concerned, but the anterior petal or labellum was flat and
in form quite like the two lateral ones; the column was normal
and in the situation of the two anterior stamens of the outer
series A 2, A 3, were two labella of the usual form (fig. 156,
p. 291). Perhaps the _Oncidium_ represented at p. 68, fig. 29,
may also be explained on the supposition that the two lateral
lobes of the labellum in this flower were the representatives
of stamens.
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