3-A8 INCKEASED NUMBKH. 



tiou with a decreased uumber of flowers, as in the 

 wig-plant {lihus Cot inns), or the feather-hyacinth 

 {BellevdUa camosa). In these cases the supernumerary 



Pig. 180. Tuft of branches at the end of the inflorescence of Belle- 

 vnlia comosa, enlarged after Morren. 



pedicels are often brightly coloured. To this condition 

 Morren gave the name mischomany, from f^uayoq, a 

 pedicel, a term which has not generally been adopted.^ 



M. Fournier^ describes a case in the butcher's broom 

 {Buscus acvleatu.s), wherein from the axil of the minute 

 leaf subtending the flower a secondary flattened 

 branch proceeded. 



Duchartre^ cites the case of a hyacinth which, in 

 addition to the usual scape, had a second smaller one 

 by its side terminated by a solitary flower ; indeed, 

 such an occurrence is not uncommon. 



Some tulips occasionally present three or four, or 

 more, flowers on one inflorescence, but whether fi'om 

 a branching of the primary scape, or from the pre- 

 mature development of some of the axillary bulbils into 

 flowering stems which become adherent to the primary 

 flower-stalk, cannot, in all cases, be determined. Cer- 



> ' Bull. Acad. Bolg.,' xvii, part ii, p. 38. 

 = Bull. Sec. Bot. Fr.,' vol. iv, 1857, p. 760. 

 3 Ibid., vol. vui, 1861, p. 159. 



