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tainly, in some cases examined by me the latter was 
the case.’ 
Under this head, too, may be included those cases 
wherein an ordinarily spicate inflorescence becomes 
paniculate owing to the branching of the axis and the 
formation of an unwonted number of secondary buds. 

Fie. 181.—Increased number of male catkins in the hazel Corylus 
avellana. 
Instances of this kind may be met with in willows, 
hazels, alders, and other amentaceous plants. In the 
case of the hazel the unusual development of male 
catkins sometimes coincides with an alteration in their 
position, instead of being placed near the axil of a leaf’; 
they become terminal. J aeger figures and describes a 
buneh of Pinus sylvestris bearing i in one case seventy 
minute cones, and in another fifty-nine. These cones 
preserved the same spiral arrangement among them- 
selves which is proper to the leaves. These latter, 
indeed, replaced the strobili above.” 
M. Reichardt describes an analogous case m the 
‘same species, and attributes the ordinate number of 
cones to a fungus (Peridermium pint). In this ease 
1 a Gard. Chron.,’ July, 1866, p. 656, and Clusius, ‘ Plant. Rar.,’ 
lib. 2, p. 143, Tulipa serotina wodvedadyc, minor, &e. ‘ Hort. Eysttett. 
Plant. Ver.,’ fol. 12. 
2 
* ‘Jaeger de Pini sylvestris monstrositate,’ Stuttgardt, 1828. 
