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number, coloured purple, and destitute of any true 
floral organs. A similar condition exists in some 
varieties of Plantago major (var. paniculata), as has been 
previously stated, p. 109. 


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Fig. 187.—Wheat-ear carnation. The appearance is due to the 
multiplication of the bracts and the suppression of the other parts of 
the flower. 
It has been noticed also in the common pea, Piswm 
sativum, and M. Lortet' records a case of the kind 
in rica nultiflora, the flowers of which, under ordi- 
nary circumstances, are arranged in clusters, but in 
this case the pedicels were more closely crowded than 
1 «Bull. Soc. Bot. France,’ t. vi, 1859, p. 268. 
