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ple Umbellula producing another, as in Cor- 
nus and Periclymenum; and in this manner 
compound Umbels will become /upradecom- 
pound, more than compounded a fecond Time, 
asin Selinum and Thy/felinum. 
A proliferous Flower is called Frondofe*, 
leafy, when it produces Leaves ; this rarely 
happens, but Inftances of it have been found 
in Rofa, Anemone, and others: ‘The other 
Kinds of Prolification are frequent enough, 
4. MUTIL ATE Flowers are the Reverfe 
of Luxuriant. Linneus confines the Term 
to thofe Flowers only that want the Corolle, 
though they ought to be furnifhed with it; 
which often happens in Jpomeza, Cempantu= 
la, Ruellia, Viola, Tuffilago and Cucubalus: 
The Caufe of this Defe& he afcribes chiefly 
to the want of fufficient Heat. 
* Frons, with the Ancients (tho’ frequently ufed, in 
refpect to Trees, in the fame Senfe with Fulium, a Leaf) 
implied, in its proper Signification, a Part of the Wood 
of the ‘Tree with the Leaf ; or as we fhould exprefs it 
a Twig with Leaves ; and for this Reafon they never ape 
plied the Term to the Leaves of Herbs (which were ale 
ways called Folia) but only to thofe of Trees. Linneus 
has ‘availed himfelf of this old Diftin@ion to make it 
a botanical Term; which he applies to exprefs the Cir- 
cumftances of Palms and Filices, Ferns; in the former of 
-which the Branches,and in the latter even the Stem it- 
felf is an actual Leaf: And here again he applies it to 
the leafy Prolification in Qaeftion, calling it Frondole, 
rather than Fo/iaceous, for the like Reafon 
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