PROLIFICATION OF THE FLOWER. 123 
the adventitious bud were strictly a lateral and axillary 
production, and moreover that the carpel itself is not 
strictly terminal but lateral in position, though appa- 
rently terminal from the abortion of other carpels. In 
the only recorded instance that I am aware of, of this 
malformation affecting the genus Thesiwm, the pistil 
was altogether absent, and occupying its place was 
the new bud or branch.’ 

Fie. 61.—Daucus Carota, showing leafly carpels, prolification, &e. 

' Reissek, ‘ Linnea,’ vol. xvii, 1843, p. 641, tab. xix. 
