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ALTERATION OP POSITION. 



Axillary prolification is the term applied to those 

 cases wherein one or more adventitious buds spring 

 from the axils of one or more of the parts 

 of the flower. Engelmann makes use of the 

 word ecblastesis to denote the same condition. Both 

 terms are open to the objection that they do not 

 clearly enable us to distinguish prolification occur- 

 ring within the flower from a similar state origi- 

 nating outside the flower, within the bracts of 

 the inflorescence. This latter condition, called by 

 Moquin-Tandon lateral prolification (see Prolification 

 of the Inflorescence), is as truly axillary as that to 

 which the name is restricted. In consequence of 

 certain peculiarities in the structure of some flowers, 

 to be hereafter alluded to, it is not in all cases easy 

 to decide whether the new growth springs from the 



