110 ALTERATION OF POSITION. 
watching the growth of the rose plantain must have 
observed the occasional production of flowers, sometimes 

Fia. 55.—Inflorescence of Plantago major, with bracts partly replaced 
by leaves and spike branched. 
stalked, in the axils of the leafy bracts, and at the same 
time have noticed that the mternodes become elon- 
gated, so that an approach is made to the ordinary spike- 
like form of the inflorescence. The proliferous group 
would include such specimens as that of P. /anceolata 
