126 ALTERATION OF POSITION. 



become carried up with the prolonged axis, more widely 

 separated one from the other than below, and particu- 

 larly liable to undergo various petalloid or foliaceous 

 changes as in proliferous Roses, Potent illay &c. 



Fig. 62, copied from Cramer, shows an instance of 



Fio. 62. Median floral prolification, &c., in flower of Delphinium. 



this kind in Delphmium elatumy where not only is the 

 thalamus prolonged, and the carpels separated, but 

 from the axils of some of the latter which have 



