PROLIFICATION OF THE INFLORESCENCE. 105 
so great as in the preceding cases. The instances just 
cited all occur in plants having an indefinite form of 

Fie. 52.—Inflorescence of Polyanthus, bearing a tuft of leaves at the 
top of the scape intermixed with the flowers. 
inflorescence ; but the production of a tuft of leaves 
or of a leafy shoot above or beyond the inflorescence is 
not confined to plants with this habit of growth, for 
Jacquin figures and describes an instance of this nature 
in the cymose flower-stems of a Sempervivum. “ fi 
raceni,’ says he, “ultra flores producuntur in ramos, 
foliosos duo hifidos qui tandem trium wnciarum longi- 
tudinem adepti fuerunt.’* 
. Median floral prolification of the inflorescence, wherein 
a new inflorescence projects beyond the primary 
one, is not uncommon in plants having thei flowers 
arranged in close heads or umbels; as in the common 
' * Miscel. Austriac. Bot.,’ vol. i, Vindob, 1778, p. 133. 
