48 PRINCIPLES OP PLANT-TEBATOLOGY. 



tained within its perianth three or four flowers of the 

 second order, some of which were normal, others 

 abnormal. 



Under the head of the inflorescence was cited the 

 interesting phenomenon in which a fasciated terminal 

 capitulum (e. (j. in Cardnm lanceolattis) was brought 

 about by the absorption into it, as it were, of some of 

 the lateral capitula. A precisely similar type of 



Fig. 73. — Scilla nutans (Wild Hyacintli). Fasoiated terminal flower; 

 peduncle entirely devoid of flowers. 



fasciation occurs in the flow^er. An abnormal inflore- 

 scence of the wild hyacinth (Scilla nnfuns) was received 

 in which the racemose habit had entirely vanished; 

 replacing it was a long bare stalk bearing a large, 

 peloric, fasciated terminal flower (fig. 73) consisting 

 of great numbers of stamens and perianth -leaves. It 

 was obviously the equivalent of several flowers of the 

 raceme. The bareness of the stalk below it was due 

 to the disappearance of the lateral flowers and their 



