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et compressus”’ (Linn., ‘ Phil. Bot.,’ 274). A similar 
opinion was held by J. D. Major in a singular book 
entitled ‘De Planta Monstrosa, Gottorpiensi,’ Schles- 
wig, 1665, wherein the stem of a Chrysanthemum 1s 
depicted in the fasciated condition. 
Thestriz, which these stems almostinvariably present, 
exhibit the lies of junction, and the spiral or other cur- 
vatures and contraction, which are so often met with, 
may be accounted for by the unequal growth of one 
portion of the stem as contrasted with that of another. 
Against this view Moquin cites the instances of one- 
stemmed plants, such as Androsace maxima, but, on 
the other hand, those herbaceous plants having usually 
but a single stem not unfrequently produce several 
which may remain distinct, but not uncommonly become 
united together. Prof. Hincks' cites cases of this kind 

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