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shoot is monopodial;indeed,it remains vegetative through- 

 out the whole Ufe of the plant, and the flowering shoots 

 occur as lateral shoots of short duration, upon it and upon 

 the other monopodial shoots developed as lateral branches. 

 As the mesocorm is short and has very short internodes, it 

 bears a rosette of foHage-leaves, and for lateral shoots it 

 has partly flowering shoots, with elongated internodes, and 

 partly new monopodial rosette-shoots. In the middle of the 

 mesocorm of a plant of the above-mentioned species, we 



Fig. 5. Sagina nodosa. 

 A, (about 1/2)- In August; I, primary shoot. B, Bulbil in the axil of 

 a subtending leaf. C, In the axil of one of the lower-most pair of 

 leaves there is only a bulbil, in that of the other there is a small 

 shoot and a bulbil as an accessory shoot; likewise in all the following 

 leaf-axils. The branches are arranged according to the usual, peculiar 

 Caryophyllaceæ-mode of branching. D, Germinating bulbils (October). 

 E, Seedling. F, A foliage-leaf. (Material from Denmark). (E. W.) 



therefore always find a rosette, which is formed of narrow, 

 linear leaves, and below this rosette there are often a great 

 number of laterally placed, flowering shoots. These lateral 

 flowering shoots may be most appropriately called semi- 

 rosette shoots. A specimen of such a plant is seen in the 

 accompanying figure (Fig. 5) of Sagina nodosa. 



A monopodial primary shoot and monopodial shoots of 



