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Fig. 22. Tranvserse sections of “ fasciatcd ” shoot of Campanula media, 
shewing various stages of “ fusion ” at different levels. 
This “ fasciation ” is an extremely common phenomenon in 
Cotoneaster nticropjiylla ; the shoot in this case is in its lower part 
perfectly cylindric and, perhaps, somewhat greater in diameter than 
the normal ones around it, (yet it is doubtful whether this is always 
the case); above, however, it broadens out and becomes strap¬ 
shaped, a number of distinct buds appearing at the tip. In a 
Sycamore-twig there was a “ fasciation ” of four shoots of which 
one was immensely longer than the remaining three which were 
approximately equal in length. 
Rheum Moorcroftianum sends up a number of “ fasciated ” 
flowering-shoots every year at Kew, so that it is almost a normal 
character for the plants under cultivation there ; these shoots branch 
unequally at the apex and, when stripped of the flowers, somewhat 
resemble an irregularly formed fowl’s foot. (Fig. 23.) 
Perhaps the best known of all cases of “ fasciation,” and the 
more interesting inasmuch as it has become a fixed and inherited 
character under cultivation, is that of the Cockscomb : Celosia 
