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tainly, in some cases examined by me the latter was 

 the case.^ 



Under this head, too, may be included those cases 

 wherein an ordinarily spicate inflorescence becomes 

 paniculate owing to the branching of the axis and the 

 formation of an unwonted number of secondary buds. 



Fig, 181. Increased number of male catkins in the hazel Coryltut 

 avellana. 



Instances of this kind may be met with in willows, 

 hazels, alders, and other amentaceous plants. In the 

 case of the hazel the unusual development of male 

 catkins sometimes coincides with an alteration in their 

 position, instead of being placed near the axil of a leaf; 

 they become terminal. Jaeger figures and describes a 

 bunch of Pimis syhestris bearing in one case seventy 

 minute cones, and in another fifty-nine. These cones 

 preserved the same spiral arrangement among them- 

 selves which is proper to the leaves. These latter, 

 indeed, replaced the strobili above.^ 



M. Reichardt describes an analogous case in the 

 same species, and attributes the inordinate number of 

 cones to a fimgus {Perldei'mium pini). In this case 



' See 'Gard. Chron.,' JiUy, 1866, p. 656, and Clusius. 'Plant. Ear..' 

 lib. 2, p. 143, Tulipa serotina voXvK\ali)(, minor, <Cr. ' Hort. Eyattett. 

 Plant. Vem.,' fol. 12. 



* ' Jaeger de Pini sylvestris monstrositate.' Stuttgardt, 1828. 



