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et rompressus'* (Linn., ' Phil. Bot.,' 274). A similar 

 opinion was held by J. D. Major in a singular book 

 entitled ' De Planta Monstrosa, Gottorpiensi,' Schles- 

 wig, 16G5, wherein the stem of a Chrysanthemum is 

 depicted in the fasciated condition. 



The striae, which these stems almost invariably present, 

 exhibit the lines of junction, and the spiral or other cur- 

 vatures and contraction, which are so often met with, 

 may be accounted for by the unequal growth of one 

 portion of the stem as contrasted with that of another. 

 Against this view Moquin cites the instances of one- 

 stemmed plants, such as Androsace maxima, but, on 

 the other hand, those herbaceous plants having usually 

 but a single stem not unfrequently produce several 

 which may remain distinct, but not uncommonly become 

 united together. Prof. Hincks^ cites cases of this kind 



Fio, 7. Fasciation in the scape of the Dandelion {Leontodcn Taraxacwn). 

 ' ' Proc. Linn. Soc.,' April 5. 1853. 



