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MR. C. BAILEY ON THE STRUCTURE ETC. 



He adds that it is worthy of notice that the male flowers 

 are found on those parts of the shoots which have long 

 internodes^ while the female flowers occur only on those 

 shoots where the internodes are suppressed. 



This was not the structure in the Lancashire plant. 

 Quite as often as not pistilliferous flowers were found in 

 the axil of the first pair of leaves of the tuft. Anthe- 

 riferous and pistilliferous flowers are found side by side 

 (see figs. 67 & 68) in the axil of the same leaf. Both 



Fig. 68. 



kinds of flowers are also found in all stages of develop* 

 mentj quite youug ones lying side-by-side with those more 

 developed. 



The great majority of the plants produced fully-deve- 

 loped flowers,, both male and female^ the latter being much 



