POSITIVE DEDOUBLEMENT. 



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General Conclusions. — More will be stated under 

 this heading in a later section, when reduction-phe- 

 nomena are considered. In the meanwhile it may be 

 said that the phenomena of positive dedoublement are 

 in a general way reversional in character. Some of 

 them, however, may be regarded as exhibiting rever- 

 sion in one aspect, but not in another. For instance, 

 in the lily afflicted with " petalomania " the elongation 

 of the axis may be regarded as a reversion, as also the 

 formation of great numbers of spirally-arranged foliar 

 organs ; but the petaloid character of the latter cannot 

 be so regarded. Many of the cases of dedoublement 

 may perhaps be considered as early stages in fasciation 

 of the flower. Whether a reversionary meaning is to 

 be attached to the formation of extra corolla-whorls in 

 Datura and Sinningia it is difficult to say. If so, it 

 can only be in the wider, vaguer sense of the term. 



"Positive dedoublement" is merely a (frequently 

 reversionary) increase in the number of whorls or 

 members of whorls. "Fasciation " is an increase in the 

 number of whorl members representing early stages in 

 the splitting of the flower into two or more. 



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