126 ALTERATION OF POSITION. 
become carried up with the prolonged axis, more widely 
separated one from the other than below, and particu- 
larly hable to undergo various petalloid or fohaceous 
changes as in proliferous Roses, Potentilla, &c. 
Fig. 62, copied from Cramer, shows an instance of 


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Fig. 62.—Median floral prolification, &c., in flower of Delphiniwm. 
this kind in Delphinium elatum, where not only is the 
thalamus prolonged, and the carpels separated, but 
from the axils of some of the latter which have 
