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SOME CASES OF PROLIFICATION IN CYCLAMENS. 
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CYCLAMEN FERSICUM;^ 
By ADOLPH LEIPNER, F.Z.A. 
Having, during the last two years, met with several cases of Prolifi- 
cation, or of formation of adventitious buds in Cyclamens, the 
author thought it right to draw the attention of the members of 
the society to this interesting phenomenon. The two cases illus- 
trated here explain themselves: in one specimen (plateW.Jig, 2) 
the yf(?ze/^r-stalk, instead of normally terminating in one solitary 
flower, has produced a small leaf immediately below the calyx of 
that flower, and another leaf, with a small axillary flower-bud, about 
one half-inch below; — in the other case (plateW. fig. i) the leaf- 
stalk has produced, at a distance of about two inches from its 
origin, another plant with one leaf and three flowers. In a third 
case, which the author exhibited, the leaf-stalk branched, and 
formed four fully developed leaves, with one diminutive flower- 
bud in the axil of each leaf. Prolification occurs, therefore, in 
these plants, both upon the inflorescence and upon the leaves. 
The two plants of cyclamen, which produced these abnormal 
growths, had been obtained from Messrs. Caraway ; and on 
examining their stock, a short time ago, several more instances 
of it were discovered. It would be interesting to observe whether 
this prolification has a hereditary tendency ; — as yet the author 
has not been able to get seed from proliferous flowers, but is 
desirous to do so, in order to experiment with it. 
It would appear that the first of these three cases, thus briefly 
described, may be similar to the two referred to by Dr. Masters in 
his ‘“Vegetable Teratology,” p. 104. 
