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the female flower may occur, in greater or less degree, accord- 
ing to the period at which it sets in. 
3. Proliferation of one or more secondary or ‘ floral ’ axes 
may occur. The various tendencies to proliferate are shown 
in the metamorphosis of the ovules into foliar organs, the 
occurrence of foliar organs, rudimentary in character, both 
above and below the insertion of the ovules. 
4. Each female ‘flower’ is shown by the proliferations to be 
an axillary axis bearing foliar organs arranged on the opposite- 
decussate plan, being in this respect a reproduction of the 
primary axis. 
In conclusion, I may say, that it is to the acute powers of 
observation of Miss Benson and, I believe, of one of her pupils, 
Miss Sanday, who first detected the abnormal flowers, that 
I am indebted for any results which may have accrued from 
their examination. 
EXPLANATION OF FIGURES IN PLATE XXXV. 
Illustrating Mr. Worsdell’s paper on Cephalotaxus. 
Fig. 1. Male inflorescence; from a photograph. Nat. size. 
Fig. 2. Male sporophyll or stamen. 
Fig. 3. Shoot with proliferated female inflorescence in situ. Nat. size. 
Fig. 4. Normal female inflorescence. Nat. size. 
Fig. 5. Sub-normal inflorescence with a bract or leaf halfway up the stalk. 
Nat. size. 
Figs. 6-8. Congenitally proliferated female inflorescences.- Nat. size. 
Fig. 9. Diagram of a normal female inflorescence. 
Fig. 10 . Proliferated primary axis of inflorescence ; one pair of bracts present, 
x 7. Fig. 10 a. Diagram of the same. 
Fig. 11. An inflorescence, showing a slight indication of proliferation, x 3|. 
Fig. 12. Diagram of the same. 
Fig. 13. An inflorescence, showing proliferation both of the primary and two 
secondary or floral axes, x 7. 
Fig. 14. An inflorescence with proliferation of primary and of one secondary 
axis ; in two of the flowers a foliar organ occurs below a lateral ovule ; in the 
flower on the right a median posterior ovule is present, x 7* 
Fig. 15. Diagram of the same. 
