138 ALTERATION OF POSITION. 
Leafy. Floral. 
Labiate. Genera not specified. Stachys. 
Phlomis ! 
Hydrophyllacez. Hydrophyllum. 
Boraginacee. Anchusa. 
Symphytum. 
Primulacee. *Dodecatheon. *Cortusa. 
* Anagallis ! *Anagallis ! 
*Primula. 
Dipsacee. Scabiosa. 
Composite. Hieracium! Hieracium ! 
Cirsium. Cirsium. 
Hypocheris. Calendula ! 
Spilanthes. 
Carthamus. 
Coreopsis. 
Campanulacez. Campanula. ‘“*Campanula ! 
Polygonacez. Genera not specified. Rumex. 
Santalacee. Thesium. 
Liliacee. Genera not specified. Tulipa ! 
Hemerocallis ! 
Asphodelus. 
Hyacinthus ! 
Iridacee. Iris. 
Amarylldacez. Narcissus ! 
Leucojum. 
Orchidacee. Orchis ! 
Habenaria. 
Cyperacee. Carex. 
Graminee. Phleum. 
Axillary prolification 1s the term applied to those 
cases wherein one or more adventitious buds spring 
from the axils of one or more of the parts 
of the flower. Engelmann makes use of the 
word ecblastesis to denote the same condition. Both 
terms are open to the objection that they do not. 
clearly enable us to distinguish prolification occur- 
ring within the flower from a similar state origi- 
nating outside the flower, within the bracts of. 
the inflorescence. This latter condition, called by 
Moquin-Tandon lateral prolification (see Prolification 
of the Inflorescence), is as truly axillary as that to 
which the name is restricted. In consequence of 
certain peculiarities in the structure of some flowers, 
to be hereafter alluded to, it is not in all cases easy 
to decide whether the new growth springs from the 
