2QO ANOMALIES OF DEVELOPEMENT. CHAP. V. 



pound flowers become full. Radiated flowers become 

 full sometimes by the multiplication of the floscules of 

 the ray to the exclusion of the floscules of the disk, as 

 in HelianthiiS) Anthemis, and Centaurea ; and some- 

 times by the multiplication of the floscules of the 

 disk to the exclusion of those of the ray, as in Ma- 

 tricaria and Bellis.* 

 The proli- The proliferous flower is that out of which another 



fefous 



flower. flower or another shoot is produced. It is seldom 

 found but in flowers already full ; from the centre 

 of which, that is, from the ovary or pistil, it some- 

 times happens that a new flower and foot-stalk is 

 produced if the flower is simple, as in the Ranun- 

 culus, Anemone, and Pink ; or several flowers and 

 foot-stalks, issuing from the common calyx, if the 

 flower is compound, as in the Daisy (PI. IX. 

 Fig. 11.), Hawkweed and Marigold; or a nevr 

 umbel issuing from the centre of the original umbel, 

 if the flower is umbellate, as in Cornus. Sometimes 

 the proliferous issue of the full flower is not itself a 

 flower, but a shoot furnished with leaves, as has 

 been sometimes, though rarely, observed in the case 

 of the Anemone and Rose.*f~ And hence we should 

 perhaps infer, with Du Hamel, the identity of the 

 origin of the pistil and woody shoot, of which he 

 thinks the bundles of woody fibres found in the 

 fruit of the Pear is also a presumptive proof. 



Such are the several varieties of luxuriant flowers, 

 constituting anomalies of excess ; but it sometimes 

 * Phil. Bat. 84, f Ibid. 82. % Phys. de* Arb. liv. iii. chap. ii. 



