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consequent on a decreased and into those resulting 
from an increased development. The alteration may 
be absolute or relative. There may be an actual 
deficiency in the number of parts or an increase in 
their number, but in either case the change may be 
simply a restoration of the primitive number, a species 
of peloria, in fact. An increased number of parts, 
moreover, may depend not so much on the formation 
of additional parts as on the subdivision of one. 
It seems also desirable to treat separately those cases 
in which there is an increased number of buds either 
leaf-buds or flower-buds, as the case. may be, as hap- 
pens in what is termed prolification. This formation of 
buds occurring, as it does, often in unwonted situations 
is treated of tnder the head of alterations of arrange- 
ment, the mere increase in number being considered 
of subordinate importance as contrasted with the 
altered disposition (see p. 100), 
