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lication of the inflorescence. As, however, there is 
still some difference of opinion as to the correct mor- 
phological interpretation to be put on some of these 
cases, it has been thought better to include them 
under the head of heterotaxy than of prolification. 
Some of the cases of prolification of the inflorescence 
resulting in a branching of an ordinarily simple inflo- 
rescence, as in feseda luteola (fig. 57), might equally 
well be placed with fission or multiplication of the 

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F1a@. 57..-Branched inflorescence of Reseda luteola. 
axile organs. Branched spikes of this character are 
not so common among Orchids as might be expected. 
