SCALES PEOPAGATE. 



273; 



conical bud, green, in which are found, or rather frora whichr 

 successively arise, all the aerial parts of a new Watercress 

 plant, while the roots multiply and lengthen." {Comptes 

 rendus, 1839, sem. 2., 438.) Mr. Flourens also mentions a 

 case of Purslane, whose leaves, divided into three, produced as 



Fig. XXXVII.->BcaIe of Zamia sprouting. 



many new plants, each having a root, stem, and leaves. In 

 the Transactions of the Horticultwral Society, is an account of a 

 Zamia, each of whose scales (Fig. XXXVII.) produced a new 



