. An encyclopædia of gardening; . on of the nec-taries while the proper petals remain. There are also some pe-culiarities in the manner in which compound flowers becomefull. Radiated floAvers become full sometimes by the multipli-cation of the floscules of the ray to the exclusion of the flosculesof the disk, as in helianthus, anthemis, and centaurea; andsometimes by the multiplication of the floscules of the disk tothe exclusion of those of the ray, as in matricaria and bellis. 806. The proliferous flower (fi^. 60.) is that out of whichanother flower or another shoot is produced. It is seldom
. An encyclopædia of gardening; . on of the nec-taries while the proper petals remain. There are also some pe-culiarities in the manner in which compound flowers becomefull. Radiated floAvers become full sometimes by the multipli-cation of the floscules of the ray to the exclusion of the flosculesof the disk, as in helianthus, anthemis, and centaurea; andsometimes by the multiplication of the floscules of the disk tothe exclusion of those of the ray, as in matricaria and bellis. 806. The proliferous flower (fi^. 60.) is that out of whichanother flower or another shoot is produced. It is seldomfound but in flowers already full; from the centre of which,that is, from the ovary or pistil, it sometimes happens that anew flower and foot-stalk is produced, if the flower is simple, asin the ranunculus, anemone, and pink; or several flowers andfoot-stalks, issuing from the common calyx, if the flower is com-pound, as in the daisy, hawkwecd, and marigold ; or a newumbel issuing from the centre of the original umbel, if the N 2. 180 SCIENCE OF GARDENING. Part II. flower is umbellate, as in cornus. Sometimes the proliferous issue of the full flower is not itself a flower,but a shoot furnished witli leaves, as has been sometimes, thooigh rarely, observed in the case of theanemone and rose. Such are the several varieties of luxuriant flowers, constituting anomalies of excess;but it sometimes happens that there is also in the flower an anomaly of defect in the absence of one of Itsparts. Examples of this sort are occasionally to be met with in the flowers of cherianthus cheri, cam-panula pentagonia, and tussilago anandria, in which the corolla is altogether wanting, thoughproper to the species; and in this case the flower is said to be mutilated. Sometimes the anomaly con-sists in the situation of the flower, which is generally protruded from the extremity or sides of the the flower of the ruscus is protruded from the surface of the leaf; or it may consist in the re
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