ADVENTITIOUS LEAVES. 



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For other illustrations of increased leaf-fon nation, 

 see Multiplication of foliar organs. 



Production of leaves on a usually leafless inflorescence. The 

 development of the bracts of an inflorescence to such 

 an extent that they resemble ordinary leaves is else- 

 where alluded to as of common occurrence. It happens 

 far less frequently that leaves are developed on an in- 

 florescence usually destitute of them, without any 

 metamorphosis or substitution, and without any forma- 



PlG. 77. Leontodon. 

 lucre are also leafy. 



Scape with two leaves ; the bnicts of the inva- 



