Considered from a teratological point of view, there is no reason for considering the inferior ovary to be purely axial.
A similar alternation may be observed occasionally as a teratological occurrence, though it is not easy to account for it.
Teratological deviations of size differ from those of which mention has just been made chiefly in this, that they are more limited in their manifestations.
Teratological data by themselves can no more be trusted to give a correct solution of any particular question, than the evidence furnished by other departments of botanical science taken separately.
It is not necessary, in this place, to pursue the subject of the development and construction of the leaf further than they are illustrated by ordinary teratological phenomena.
For convenience sake the teratological alterations of size may be divided into those which are the result of increased growth and those which arise from diminished action.
The normal coloration of the calyx occurs most frequently in polysepalous calyces; teratological coloration, on the other hand, occurs especially in gamosepalous flowers.
In teratologicalrecords it is not always stated clearly to which of the two above-named causes the unusual hermaphroditism belongs, though it is generally easy to ascertain this point.
His teratological work is important, and is chiefly contained in the second volume of the Philosophie anatomique.
He saw the relation of teratological to foetal structure, for he affirmed that "malformations are only persistent foetal conditions" (p.
But then all sorts of seemingly sudden variations are occasionally designated by the same term by one writer or another, and even accidental anomalies, such as teratological ascidia, are often said to arise by sports.
We find starting points for new investigations in almost any teratological structure.
I have had the opportunity of collecting an instance of this anomaly on the tall Equisetum telmateja in Switzerland, and other cases are on record in teratological literature.
This is the first degree of an artist of teratological development, which, since the middle ages, has become very marked in certain subjects, and has given rise to a variety in which this defect has become hereditary.
It must be borne in mind that instances can be found of teratological change of every organ in the plant--e.
These and similar examples suffice to awaken doubts as to whether any teratological change really arises "spontaneously," especially when we learn how slight a mechanical irritation of the growing point may induce changes in the flower; e.
The whole practice of horticulture and agriculture abounds in examples of teratological sports or varieties which are transmissible by seeds, budding and grafting, and other means--e.
Every part of the plant may exhibit teratological changes, and I shall for the most part select cases in illustration which indicate approach to pathological states, and group with them cases known to be pathological in origin.
Little's disease, which is a form of paralysis of foetal origin, and all the teratological (i.
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