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then elongate into a shoot and no cavity is formed. A 

 fig observed by Zuccarini (figs. 105, 106) appears to 

 have been formed in a similar manner, the flower-bear- 

 ing summit of the stalk not being contracted as usual, 

 the flowers projected beyond the orifice of the fig. If 

 this view be correct the case would be one rather of 

 lengthening of the axis than of absolute eversion since 

 it was never inverted. 



Altered direction of leaves. The leaves partake more or 

 less of the altered direction of the axis, as in fastigiate 

 elms, but this is not universally the case, for though the 

 stem is bent downwards the leaves may be placed in the 

 opposite direction ; thus in some specimens of Galium 

 Aparine growing on the side of a cliff from which there 

 had been a fall of chalk, the stems, owing apparently to 



Fig. 105. Fig showing pro- 

 longed inflorescence and projecting 

 flowers. 



Fio. 106. Section of the same. 



the landslip, were pendent, but the leaves were abruptly 

 bent upwards. 



One of the most singular instances of an inverted 



