PROLIFICATION OF THE INFLORESCENCRH. 113 
Professor Reichenbach enumerates a few instances in 
the Report of the International Botanical Congress of 
London, 1866, p. 121, and the same author gives an 
illustration in his ‘ Or chidographia Europea, tab. 150. 
In Grasses, as indeed in other plants with a spicate 
inflorescence, this change occurs not unfrequently. 
The common Ray Grass “(Lolium) i is especially subject 
to the change in question, and among cultivated 
cereals, maize and wheat occasionally show this ten- 
dency to subdivision. One variety of the latter grain 
is cultivated in hot countries under the name of 
Egyptian wheat—Triticum vulgare, var. compositum. 
Prolification of the inflorescence has been most fre- 
quently observed in the following genera: 
Leafy. _ Floral. 
Ranunculacex. Ranunculus. Ranunculus! 
Anemone. Anemone. 
Crucifere. *Brassica ! 
Caryophyllacee. Lychnis ! 
Dianthus ! 
Geraniacee. *Pelargonium ! *Pelargonium ! 
Leguminos. *Trifolum ! Trifolium ! 
Lotus! Lotus! 
Coronilla ! 
Cytisus. Cytisus. 
Rosacee. Poterium. 
*Pyrus! *Pyrus ! 
*Crategus ! Crategus ! 
*Rosa. Rosa! 
Sanguisorba. 
Philadelphacez. Philadelphus. 
Crassulaces. Sempervivuns. 
Echeveria. 
Crassula. 
Ficoidez. ? Tetragonia. 
Cactaceex. Opuntia. Opuntia. 
Pereskia. 
Saxifragacer. Saxifraga ! 
Umbelliferse. Seseli. 
*Apium ! 
Cnidium. 
Cet ae. 
Eryngium. ryngium. 
2 Stans 
Heracleum ! Heracleum ! 
Hydrocotyle. Hydrocotyle. 
Daucus. 
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