eme
Convallaria Flower-bud Ditto.
Allium Ditto Ditto.
Cyperaceae Carex Inflorescence Utricle.

[Illustration: FIG. 67.--Proliferous Rose. Calyx leafy; petals normal,
some reflexed; stamens and pistil absent; in their places a branch with
leaves and flowers.]

[Illustration: FIG. 68.--Rose exhibiting median, axillary, lateral,
floral, and leafy prolification in same flower.]

=Complicated prolification.=--From what has been before stated it may be
seen that prolification of two or more kinds may coexist in the same
flower. Mixed leafy and floral prolification is not unfrequent in
proliferous roses, where a shoot is, as it were, prolonged through the
centre of the original flower and terminated by a second flower, or
even by a cluster, as is well shown in the accompanying figure (fig.
67). Median and axillary prolification, also, not unfrequently coexist
in the same flower; thus, in a proliferous rose forwarded to me by Mr.
W. Thomson (fig. 68), the following changes were observed:--the swollen
portion below the calyx, the "hip," was entirely absent; the sepals were
leaf-like in aspect, the petals unaffected; above the petals the axis
was prolonged for a short distance and then bore a circlet of miniature,
sessile roses, destitute, indeed, of calyx, but provided with numerous
petals, stamens, and pistils. Above these lateral flowers, the prolonged
axis bore a number of scales in many rows. The scales were in their turn
surmounted by a whorl of five perfect leaves, beyond which, again, the
axis was prolonged into a leafy shoot terminated by a flower bud, the
whole constituting a remarkably complicated admixture of elements
belonging to the flower, the bud, the inflorescence, and the
leafshoot.[143]

Proliferous flowers of Orchids also occasionally present great
complexity in the arrangement of their parts. An instance of this kind
was described by myself from specimens furnished by Dr. Moore, of
Glasnevin, in the 'Journal of the Linnean Society,' vol. ix, p. 349,
tabs. x, xi, and from which the following summary is extracted:

[Illustration: FIG. 69.--Proliferous Orchis. Diagram showing the
arrangement of the several organs in the seven outer circles of the
flower. Each whorl is numbered, and the position of the axillary buds
shown by the small circles.]

The primary flowers were composed of five distinct w