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second flower, or even by a cluster, as is well shown in 

 the accompanying figure (fig. 67). Median and axillary 

 prolification, also, not unfrequently coexist in the same 

 flower ; thus, in a proliferous rose forwarded to me by 

 Mr. W. Thomson (fig. 68), the following changes were 

 obser^^ed : the swollen portion below the calyx, the 

 " hip," was entirely absent ; the sepals were leaf-like 

 in aspect, the petals unaffected; above the petals 

 the axis was prolonged for a short distance and then 

 bore a circlet of miniature, sessile roses, desti- 

 tute, indeed, of calyx, but provided with numerous 

 petds, stamens, and pistils. Above these lateral 



Fio. 68. Hose exhibiting median, axillary, lateral, floral, and leafy 

 prolification in same flower. 



flowers, the ])rolonged axis bore a number of scales in 

 many rows. The scales were in their turn surmounted 



