PBOLIFICATION OP THE FLOWER. 123 



the adventitious bud were strictly a lateral and axillary 

 production, and moreover that the carpel itself is not 

 strictly terminal but lateral in position, though appa- 

 rently terminal from the abortion of other carpels. In 

 the only recorded instance that I am aware of, of this 

 malformation affecting the genus Thesium, the pistil 

 was altogether absent, and occupying its place was 

 the new bud or branch.^ 



Fio. 61. Daucus Carota, showing leaflj carpels, prolification, &c. 



' Reissek, ' Linneea,' vol. xvii, 1843, p. 641, tab. xix. 



