PROLIFICATION OF THE FLOWER. 



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Complicated prolification. From what has been before 

 stated it may be seen that prolification of two or more 

 kinds may coexist in the same flower. Mixed leafy 

 and floral prolification is not unfrequent in proliferous 



Fio. 67. Proliferous Rose. Calyx leafy; petals normal, some re- 

 flexed ; stamens and pistil absent ; in their places a branch with leaves 

 and flowers. 



roses, where a shoot is, as it were, prolonged through 

 the centre of the original flower and terminated by a 



