300 INCREASED NUMBER. 
there were no less than 227 cones, but each one half 
the size of the ordinary cones.’ 
Of asimilar character is the many-headed pine-apple. 
Among grasses such a branching of the inflorescence 
is exceedingly common,—which is the more readily 
understood as the normal inflorescence is in so many 
cases paniculate. Cultivators have, in some instances, 
availed themselves of this pecuharity, as in the Hgyptian 
wheat or corn of abundance (Triticum compositum), 
certain varieties of Maize, etc. Similar exuberant 
erowths occur in Orchidacee, in Cyperacee, e.g. Carea, 
in Restiacew, and indeed they may be found in any plant 
with a similar form of inflorescence. In all these cases 
the branching begins at the lower part of the spike, and 
extends from below upwards in an indefinite manner, 
even although the primary inflorescence be definite. 
Among the Equisetacee a similar plurality of spikes 
occurs often as a result of mutilation.” The deviation 
in question might in some instances be turned to good 
account, as in the Triticum before mentioned or as in the 
broccoli shown at fig. 182, though it must be added that 
the apparent advantages are often counterpoised by some 
undesirable qualities or by some circumstance which 
prevents us availing ourselves of the new condition. 
Multiplication of Bulbs——This occurrence has been briefly 
alluded to previously (see p. 84). The most curious 
cases are those in which one bulb is placed on the top. 
of another as happened in some bulbs of Leucoiwm 
estivum described by M. Gay.® Irmisch described a 
similar phenomenon in LZ. vernwm; and Mr. Moggridge 
has communicated drawings of a similar formation im 
the same species grown in the neighbourhood of 
Mentone. 
1 Cited in ‘ Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr.,’ xiv, p. 265. 
2 Duval Jouve, ‘ Hist. Nat. Equiset. Fr.,’ tab. 8, also Milde, ‘ Nov. Act. 
Acad. Nat. Cur.,’ t. xxvi, part 2. For branched inflorescence of orchids, 
see ‘ Reichenbach Proc. Lond. Bot. Congress,’ 1866, p. 121. 
3 «Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr.,’ vi, 266, vii, 457. Irmisch, ‘Knollen und 
Zwiebelgew.,’ tab. 7, figs. 10, 11. 
