40 FLOWERS. 



Campanula which is one petaled and double 

 Hibiscus and CamelUa where the stamens are 

 combined. 



ProUferous Flowers are those in which parts 

 that usually have all their axillaiy buds dor- 

 mant, accidently develope such buds ; as in 

 certain Roses, in which a branch grows up 

 from the centre of a rose, or as it is technically 

 said the carpellary leaves develope leaf-buds 

 in their axils, so that the flower becomes a 

 branch, the lower leaves of which are colored 

 and transformed, and the upper green, and in 

 their ordinary state. 



Discoid compound Flowers are those in which 

 the central florets of a flower-head acquire 

 corollas, like those of the circumference, one 

 side strap shaped, as in the Dahlia ; the culti- 

 vated varieties of which should be called discoid, 

 and not double. 



These two last are so essentially different 

 from double flowers, that whatever laws may 

 be supposed to govern the production or ameli- 

 oration of double Flowers, can have no relation 

 to proliferous or discoid compound Flowers. 



