They appear to have assumed that
the hermaphrodite form was a


quoted by Braun, ‘Annals and
Mag. of Nat. Hist.’ 2nd series, vol.
xviii. 1856, p. 380. , ‘ Géo-
graphie Bot, de l'Europe,’ tom. viii.
pp. 33, 38, 44, &. Both Vaucher


male; perhaps they were de-
ceived by the pistil not becoming
fully developed and of proper
length until some time after the
anthers have dehisced.
300 GYNO-DIGCIOUS PLANTS. Cuar. VIL


corolla, and their anthers do not contain any sound
pollen; but after long search I found a single plant
with the stamens moderately exserted, and their
anthers contained a very few full-sized grains, together
with a multitude of minute empty ones. In some
females the stamens are extremely short, and their
minute anthers, though divided into the two normal
cells or loculi, contained not a trace of pollen: in
others again the anthers did not exceed in diameter
the filaments which supported them, and were not
divided into two loculi. Judging from what I have
myself seen and from the descriptions of others, all
the plants in Britain, Germany, and near Mentone,
are in the state just described; and I have never
found a single flower with an aborted pistil. It is,
therefore, remarkable that, according to Delpino,* this
plant near Florence is generally trimorphic, consisting
of males with aborted pistils, females with aborted
stamens, and hermaphrodites.
