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2. The stem of Liliiim does not, under normal conditions, branch 
vegetatively, so the bulbils could scarcely represent condensed vegetative 
shoots. 
3. A somewhat similar anomaly has been recorded for Gagea arvensis 
by Wirtgen in Flora, 1846, pp. 353-68, where the bulbils undoubtedly 
represent abortive flowers. A few details of this anomaly may be interesting 
here. 
The bulbils usually appeared at the base of the main axis of the 
inflorescence in the leaf axils and represented the lower flowers. Some of 
the bulbils produced stalks, and these in turn bore flowers. Several single 
Fig. 2. F, Stamens enlarged. G, Stamen b enlarged, showing anterior petaloid appendage. H, 
Stamen a showing the transition between bulbil scale and stamen (front view). J, Floral diagram 
showing spiral arrangement of flower. 
small bulbils on the ramifications ol short-flower stalks were observed which 
bore abortive flowers, and this the writer considers to be a clear indication 
that most of these bulbils are to be regarded as undeveloped or abortive 
flowers. Further, there also existed on the same inflorescence a transition 
from the rudimentary flower to the bulbil. The bulbil flowers were by no 
means uniform, varying in a similar manner to those described above. 
4. The only strictly comparable case to the one under consideration is 
described by H. Hesselman in Act. Hort. Bergiani, Band III, No. 1 A, 
pp. 1-19, under the title, ‘ Ueber die Ausbildung von Bulbillenblattern als 
florale Blatter bei L ilium bulbiferum , L.’ 
In this instance the bulbils were sessile in the leaf axils, those in the 
B b 
