342 NUMBER. 



consequent on a decreased and into tliose resulting 

 from an increased development. The alteration may 

 be absolute or relative. There may be an actual 

 deficiency in the number of parts or an increase in 

 their number, but in either case the change may be 

 simply a restoration of the primitive number, a species 

 of peloria, in fact. An increased number of parts, 

 moreover, may depend not so much on the formation 

 of additional parts as on the subdivision of one. 



It seems also desirable to treat separately those cases 

 in which there is an increased number of buds either 

 leaf-buds or flower-buds, as the case may be, as hap- 

 pens in what is termed prolification. This formation of 

 buds occurring, as it does, often in unwonted situations 

 is treated of under the head of alterations of arrange- 

 ment, the mere increase in number being considered 

 of subordinate importance as contrasted with the 

 altered disposition (see p. 100). 



