104 ALTERATION OF POSITION. 
vesca, each of which had a tuft of small leaves at their 
extremity. In the common marigold and in Lotus 
corniculatus I have also seen instances of this kind. 
Kirschleger' describes a tuft of leaves as occurring on 
the apex of the flowering spike after the maturation of 
the fruit in Plantago, and a similar growth frequently 
takes place in the common wallflower, in Antirrhinwm 
majus, &c. In cases where a renewal of growth 
in the axis of inflorescence has taken place after 
the ripening of the fruit, the French botanists use the 
term recrudescence, but the growth in question by no 
means always occurs after the ripening of the fruit, 
but frequently before. Professor Braun cites the case 
of a specimen of Plantago lanceolata, im which the 
spike was surmounted by a tuft of leaves and roots, as 
well as a still more singular instance in Hryngiwm vin- 
parum, in which not only did particular branches ter- 
minate in rosettes of leaves provided with roots, but 
similar growths proceeded from the heads of flowers 
themselves. Baron de Mélicoq’ gives a case in 
Primula variabilis, in which at the top of the flower- 
stalk, in the centre of six flowers, was placed a complete 
plant in miniature, having three leaves, from the axil 
of one of which proceeded a rudimentary flower. Mr. 
W. B. Jeffries also forwarded me a polyanthus (fig. 52) 
in which the peduncle was surmounted by a small plant, 
forming a crown above the ordinary flower-stalk, Just - 
as the crown of the pineapple surmounts that fruit. A 
similar instance was exhibited at the Scientific Com- 
mittee of the Horticultural Society on July 11th, 1868, 
by Mr. Wilson Saunders; the species in this case was 
P. cortusoides. To Mr. R. Dean I am indebted for a 
similar proliferous cyclamen, which seems similar to 
one mentioned by Schlechtendal.* This author alludes 
to an analogous circumstance in the ‘inflorescence of: 
Cytisus nigricans, where, however, the change was not 
‘Flora,’ 1844, p. 565. 
1 
2 «Ann. Se. Nat.,’ ser. 3, vol. v, 1846, p. 64, 
* * Bot. Zeit.,’ vol. xx, p. 382. 
