In fasciated stems, also, of herbaceous plants, it not unfrequently happens that the upper portions of the stem are brightly coloured.
In a specimen of fasciated cowslip given me by Mr. Edgeworth there was a similar formation of leaves on the flattened stalk.
The common cockscomb or Celosia cristata, one of the oldest and most widely cultivated fasciated varieties may be used to illustrate the first point.
It is a common thing for fasciated branches and stems to divide at the summit into a number of subdivisions, and ordinarily this splitting occurs in the lower part, sometimes dividing the entire fasciated portion.
Fasciated hawkweeds and twisted teasels gave the same average constitution of the offspring from highly monstrous, and from apparently wholly normal individuals.
This proportion corresponds with the degree of inheritance which is shown in many years by the largest and strongest [413] fasciated stems.
The striped Jalappa, the crested Sedum, the fasciated crown-imperial, white strawberries, red gooseberries and many others were known to Munting.
The same holds good with other monstrosities, and badly nourished specimens of rich races with twisted or fasciated stems always tend to reversion.
In unfavorable years a whole generation of a fasciated race may exhibit exclusively normal plants, without transmitting a trace of this deficiency to the following generation.
My second point is a direct proof of this assertion, but made with a fasciated variety of a wild species.
If we compare these results with the effects of selection in twisted and fasciated races, we observe a marked contrast.
In such cases the fasciated stems [410] are broadened and flattened from the very beginning, and often retain the incipient breadth throughout their further development.
This shows that even in those cases an improvement may be expected, if only the means can be found to subject the twisted and the fasciated races to the same sharp test as the tricotylous varieties.
Fasciated stems are frequently curved like a crozier, owing to one edge growing more rapidly than the other.
Hot-house plants when oedematous not infrequently put out watery blisters from the cortex or leaves, which rupture; and the stems of fleshy fasciated (e.
The appearances suggest that the difference between a normal and a fasciated plant consists in the inability of the fasciated plant to separate its lateral branches.
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