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PRODUCTION OF TUBERS WITHIN THE POTATO. 
By A. B. Renvtez, M.A., F.L.S. 
(Puate 336.) 
In the Gardeners’ Chronicle of January 22nd, 1870, is a short 
note on the anomalous production of young tubers or shoots in the 
truded. 
No certain explanation of the origin of these internal shoots is 
given in any of the above notes, bu e Gardeners’ Chronic 
suggests as the most probable one, the formation of adventitious 
Having received from Mr. Carling, of Norwich, a specimen 
of a potato in the state in question, I thought it would be of 
interest to ascertain the real origin of these ‘sintrasomatal” shoots. 
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the rind was splitting in several places, the clefts increased in width, 
and soon little potatoes appeared throug the apertures. This 
went on for some weeks, and when given to me the potato had the 
tomose (fig. C). The shoot is very narrow at its point of origin, 
put rapidly widens out, and begins at once to give off roots and 
* Revue Horticole, 1879, p. 397. 
Journat or Borany.—-Vow. 31, [Jury, 1898.) ) 
