The late dry season was singularly free from accidental monstrosities among flowers. We have not met with a single Rose sprouting into a branch from the middle, or producing there even a cluster of leaves. Proliferous Pears and Apples have been sought in vain, and the customary transformations of flowers into leaves, so common in warm damp summers or in variable weather, have almost disappeared. This would seem to show that the disturbing forces which interfere with vegetable organization are connected with sudden atmospheric changes, such as heavy rain following hot dry weather, or with an unsuitable climate, such as long-continued damp warm weather acting upon the natives of cold dry countries. Instances, however, of sudden malformation have even this year been observed which are at present inexplicable, such as the following:

At Newsell's Park, near Royston, a Jasminum grandiflorum has suddenly produced flowers like those represented in the annexed cut. Each corolla has refused to expand, and has allowed a small green shoot to burst through its side; these shoots are club-shaped, fleshy, rather longer than the corolla, and clothed with short, acute, spreading scales, which become closely clustered near the points. Towards the lower part of the shoot the scales are thin, flat, and in irregular tubes, as if the remains of attempts to form a corolla; a little higher up such scales occur as at fig. 1, with a deformed stamen growing from its upper side; but the greater part of the shoot is covered by abortive stamens only, tough, thick, sharp-pointed, as at fig. 2, or having a recurved point, or being of a very small size, as at fig. 3, which represents two of the crowded Bcale6 collected round the points. What makes this case more especially interesting is, that the deformity consists in a tendency to produce a very great number of stamens, although the plant and all its relations are particularly distinguished by never having more than two in a natural state.

It is also extremely singular, and as far as we know without parallel, that notwithstanding this exuberant display of stamens, there was no trace of any tendency to produce a pistil on the parts that naturally compose that important organ.

The cause of this strange monstrosity is inexplicable: nothing can be more common-place than the treatment the plant had had; it was grown in a mixture of peat and loam, it was kept in a house in which there was only heat enough to keep out frost, and it had never had any manure of any description. Almost every flower upon the plant underwent a similar transformation.

For the present it adds fresh difficulty to a solution of the problem, What causes transformation or malformation in the vegetable kingdom? To say that it demonstrates the tendency of all the parts of a flower to assume the condition of the leaf, which is the type of ail organs, is not sufficient; for in the first place we wish to know what gives the tendency, and secondly, in the case before us, the tendency is really confined to the production of stamens. - London Gardener's Chronicle.