=Increased number of flowers in an inflorescence.=--This happens generally as a result of over luxuriant growth, and scarcely demands notice here, being rather referable to variation than to malformation. The increased number of florets in the spikelets of some grasses has already been alluded to (p. 351). Thus spikelets of wheat occasionally produce more than the three florets which are proper to them.[463] It will be remembered that in this as in many other grasses there are rudimentary florets, and it is no matter for surprise that these florets should occasionally be fully developed. FOOTNOTES: [392] 'Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr.,' vol. vii, 1860, p. 587. [393] 'Fragment. Phyt. Austral.,' part xx, p. 270. [394] 'Bull. Acad. Belg.,' xvi, pt. i, p. 60, "Fuchsia," p. 125, c. ic. [395] "Theorie de la feuille," 'Arch. des Sciences Bibl. Univers.,' 1868. [396] See Engelmann, 'De Antholysi,' p. 16, section 12. [397] Verhandl. des Botanisch. Vereins Brandenburg,' 1859, 1 heft. [398] See Henslow. 'Mag. Nat, Hist.' 1832, vol. v, p. 429. [399] 'Phytologist,' September, 1857. [400] Seemann's 'Journal of Botany,' iv, p. 168, t. 47, f. 3. [401] 'Illust. Hortic.,' 1866, misc., p. 97. [402] See Fresenius, 'Mus. Senkenb.,' bd. 2, p. 43. Schlechtendal, 'Bot. Zeit.,' iv, pp. 403, 492, _Veronica tetrandra_. [403] 'Flora,' 1865, tab. 6, fig. 8. [404] 'Org. Veget.,' t. i, p. 497, pl. 42, f. 3. [405] 'El. Ter. Veg.,' p. 354. [406] Cited in "Rev. Bibl." of 'Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr.,' 1866, p. 171. [407] Loc. cit., 351. [408] 'Mem. Acad. Toulous.,' vi, 1862, ex 'Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr.,' "Rev. Bibl.," vol. ix, 1862. p. 127. [409] 'Flora.' 1857. p. 289. [410] L. c., p. 354. [411] Giraud, 'Ed. Phil. Mag.,' Dec., 1839. [412] See _Cerasus Caproniana_, D. C. 'Plant. Rar. Hort. Genev.,' tab. 18. [413] Nees, 'Linnaea,' v, p. 679, tab. 11 (_Schoenodorus_). [414] 'Gard. Chron.,' 1852, p. 452. [415] See Cramer, 'Bildungsabweich.' pp. 16, 24. [416] 'Linnaea,' 1842, p. 389, c. ic. [417] Seemann's 'Journal of Botany,' 1867, vol. v, p. 158. [418] Cramer, 'Bildungsabweich,' p. 66, _Astrantia major_, _Eryngium_, to which may be added _Daucus_, _Heracleum_, &c. [419] See also Reinwardt, 'Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur.,' 12, 1, 37; and Masters, 'Journ. Linn. Soc.,' vi, p. 24. [420] 'Organog. Veget.,' tab. 53. [421] 'Missbild.,' p. 206. [422] Ehrenberg, 'Flora,' 1846, p. 704. [423] 'Flora,' 1860, tab. 7. [424] 'Ann. Sc. Nat.,' 3 ser., t. x, p. 207. [425] 'Mem. Mus.,' xii. t. 17. [426] 'Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur.,' xv, tab. xxviii, f. 3; 'Bot. Mag.,' t. 1622. "Caryophyllus spicam frumenti referens." A similar malformation in _Dianthus barbatus_ is not uncommon. It has lately been introduced into gardens under the name of _Dianthus_ "_mousseux_," but is not likely to find favour with gardeners. [427] 'Bull. Soc. Bot. France,' t. vi, 1859. p. 268. [428] Weber, 'Verhandl. Nat. Hist. Vereins. Rhein. Pruss.,' 1860. [429] 'Bot. Zeit.,' 1848, p. 217.