PROLIFICATION OF THE INFLORESCENCE, 107 
found in Alisma natans, Juncus uliginosus, Chlorophytum 
Sternbergianum, &c. As an accidental occurrence, a 
similar thing has been noticed in Lychnis coronaria, 
Phaius grandifolius, Oncidiwm cebolleta, EHpidendrwm 
elongatum,' &e. &e. 
Here, too, may be mentioned those cases wherein a 
leaf-bud is found upon the surface of the so-called in- 
ferior ovary ; generally a leaf only is found, but a leaf- 
bud may re originate in this situation, and in either 
case the inference is that the ovary is, in part at least, 
made of the dilated and hollowed axis. Leaves may 
occasionally be found in this way on the so-called 
calyx-tube or on the inferior ovaries of roses, pears, 
apples, Pereskia, Crategus tanacetifolia, &e. 
The fruits of Opuntia Salmania and of O. fragilis 
(‘ Bull. Soc. Bot. France,’ vol. i, p. 306; vol. v, p. 115) 
have been observed to form small fruit-like branches 
around their summits. This circumstance is more fully 
treated of in the succeeding chapter relating to Hete- 
rotaxy. 
Lateral floral prolification of the infloreseence.—T'his, which is 
termed by Hngelmann Hcblastesis foliorum sub flora- 
lium,” is much the most common of all these deviations, 
and it is met with in every degree, from the presence of 
a single supernumerary flower in the axil of a bract 
to the existence of a small cluster or panicle of such 
flowers. 
Itis common inthe Anemone coronaria and hortensis, 
also in the common scarlet Pelargonium (fig. 53). It has 
been frequently recorded in Poteriwm sanguisorba, and 
in Sanguisorba officinalis, and 1s especially common in 
Umbellifere, Dipsacece, and Composite ; a familar illus- 
tration in the latter order is afforded by the hen-and- 
chicken daisy. In some species of Composite, indeed, 
1 See A. Braun, ‘ Ann. Scienc. Nat.,’ 4th series, 1860, vol. xiv, p. 13. 
2 “ Prolificatio e latere ex calyci communi proles plurimos pedunculatos 
emittens, fit in compositis aggregatis proprie dictis.” ‘Linn. Phil. Bot.,’ 
§ 124, 
