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rus Malus. Daucus Carota. Athamanta Cervaria. *Trifolium repens! Centranthus macrosiphon. Tragopogon pratense. orientale. Scorzonera octangularis. Hypochaeris radicata. *Senecio vulgaris! Podospermum laciniatum. Cirsium arvense. Carduus heterophyllus tataricus. Campanula, sp. Convolvulus sepium. *Primula officinalis, var. cult! acaulis. elatior. Gentiana campestris. *Petunia violacea! Lycium europaeum. Laurus Sassafras. Tulipa Gesneriana. Convallaria maialis. Colchicum autumnale! (virescent?) Consult also Turpin, 'Atlas de Goethe,' t. iv, f. 12, _Lycium_. Engelmann, 'De Anthol.,' Sec. 35, p. 31. This author figures phyllodic sepals in _Senecio vulgaris_, tab. v, figs. 24-26; _Campanula_, tab. iii, f. 15, 16; _Athamanta cervaria_, tab. v, f. 14. Lindley, 'Elements of Botany,' 1847, pp. 64, 73, &c. 'Gard. Chron.,' 1858, p. 685; 1859, p. 654, _Cucurbita_. Petunnikoff, 'Bull. Soc. Imp. Moscow,' 1862, _Cirsium_. Braun, 'Rejuvenescence,' Ray Society's Transl. See succeeding paragraphs. =Phyllody of the corolla.=--The petals also are frequently replaced by leaves, though in many of the recorded instances the change has been one of colour only; these latter are strictly cases of virescence. M. Seringe[259] speaks of a flower of _Peltaria alliacea_ in which the calyx was petal-like, while the corolla was leafy as if there had been transposition of the two organs, a very rare, if not unparalleled, instance. In a flower of _Campanula Medium_, provided, as is often the case, with a double corolla, the outer corolla was slit down on one side, the edges of the cleft being leafy. [Illustration: FIG. 133.--Sepals and petals to leaves. _Geranium_.] The frondescent petals are very often completely disjoined, as in _Verbascum nigrum_, and _Lonicera Periclymenum_, in which, moreover, median prolification generally coexists. In the case of _Tropaeolum majus_, the ordinary leaves of which are peltate and orbicular, the petals when frondescent have not the peltate arrangement, but are spathulate, and provided with very long, narrow stalks, so that, in some cases, they are, more properly speaking, enlarged virescent petals than true leaves; in other instances, however, the arrangement of the veins is more like that of the true leaves than that of the petals. As might be expected, frondescenc
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