ACTION OF FLOWERS. 

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often found in the state of a short branch. Still more 

 rarely a flower lengthens, and produces from the axils 



of its parts other flowers arranged over its sides, as in 

 the Double Pine-apple of the Indian Archipelago. 

 The following very striking illustrations of these facts 

 have, among many others, occurred in the present 

 season (1839). Fig. 14 represents a branch of a Pear, 

 in which one flower (a) is in a deformed state, but 



