b52, ALTERATION ‘OF POSITION. 
second flower, or even by a cluster, as is well shown im 
the accompanying figure (fig. 67). Median and axillary 
prolification, also, not unfrequently coexist in the same 
flower ; thus, in a proliferous rose forwarded to me by 
Mr. W. Thomson (fig. 68), the following ehanges were 
_ observed :—the swollen portion below the calyx, the 
“hip,” was entirely absent; the sepals were leaf-lke 
in aspect, the petals unaffected; above the petals 
the axis was prolonged for a short distance and then 
bore a eirclet of miniature, sessile roses, desti- 
tute, indeed, of calyx, but provided with numerous 
petals, stamens, and pistils, Above these lateral 


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Fic. 68.—Rose exhibiting median, axillary, lateral, floral, and leafy 
prolification in same flower. 
flowers, the prolonged axis bore a number of scales in 
manyrows. ‘The scales were in their turn surmounted 
