428 Ever-sporting Varieties 



to poor races, but the magnolias and lime-trees 

 are often so productive of ascidia as to suggest 

 the idea of ever-sporting varieties. I have 

 seen many hundred ascidia on one lime-tree, and 

 far above a hundred on a magnolia. They dif- 

 fer widely in size and shape, including in some 

 cases two leaves instead of one, or are composed 

 of only half a leaf or of even still a smaller part 

 of the summit. Rich ascidia-bearing varieties 

 seem to offer notable opportunities for scientific 

 pedigree-cultures. 



Union of the fruits and flowers on neighboring 

 flower-heads, of the rays of the umbellifers or 

 of the successive flowers of the racemes of cab- 

 bages and allied genera, seem always to be rare. 

 The same holds good for the adhesion of foliar 

 to axial organs, of branches to stems and 

 other cases of union. Many of these cases re- 

 turn regularly in each generation, or may at 

 least be seen from time to time in the same 

 strains. Prolification of the inflorescence is 

 very common and changes in the position of 

 staminate and pistillate flowers are not rare. 

 We find starting points for new investigations 

 in almost any teratological structure. Half- 

 races and double-races are to be distinguished 

 and isolated in all cases, and their hereditary 

 qualities, the periodicity of the recurrence of 

 the anomaly, the dependency on external circum- 



