18 ERYTHEA. 
TERATOLOGICAL NOTES. 
are in most heads only slightly abnormal, but the palece of 
the receptacle are much elongated and foliaceous, though 
entire. The ovary and adherent calyx-tube are slenderly 
prolonged, sometimes to the length of three-fourths of an 
inch; the corolla is not very different from its normal develop- 
style, which often protrudes an inch beyond the orifice of the 
corolla and shows all degrees of bifurcation, from a slight 
are often divided after the manner of the true foliage, the 
ordinary leaves. In one head pronounced prolification occurs 
between the style-branches, the shoot thus produced bearing 
in some cases six or seven organs which are entire, though 
a in other respects. I was observed that in most 
cas®s where prolification occurs, the style-branches also are 
entire. 
Masters, in his “Vegetable Teratology,” mentions Coreop- 
sis among the plants in which median floral prolification 
has been observed, but we are not aware that the phenomenon 
has hitherto been recorded in our own very closely allied 
plant. 
