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Title: Vegetable Teratology
An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants

Author: Maxwell T. Masters

Release Date: November 6, 2007 [eBook #23354]

Language: English

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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 si