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THE
RAY SOCIETY.
INSTITUTED MDCCCXLIV.
This volume is issued to the Subscribers to the Ray Society forthe 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—Cohesionof foliar organs, 21—Of margins of single organs, 21—Tubularpetals, 23—Cohesion of several organs by their margins, 25—Ofthe sepals, 27—Of the petals, 28—Of the stamens, 29—Of thepistils, 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—Ofstamens to petals, 34—Of stamens to pistils, 35—Miscellaneousadhesions, 35—Of fruit to branch, 36—Synanthy, 36—Syncarpy,45—Synspermy, 50—Between axes of different plants of samespecies, 50—And of different species, 55—Synophty.
- PART II.—...