What is certain is that the proliferous pink has a considerable share of the distinctive grace of its family, and that the occasion of first encountering it will live in the flower-lover's memory.
The upper part of the frond is scarcely wider than the stalk, and commonly produces a proliferous bud at the apex, where it very frequently takes root, and develops a new plant.
I find one or two instances of a slight enlargement of the apex, as if there were an attempt to form a proliferous bud.
The calyx therefore, contrary to the nature of the common Polytrichum, is proliferous from its base.
The herbs I collected hereabouts were Mesomora (Cornus suecica) with a proliferous blossom.
The trunk of this tree is Simple branching, deffused Stem and not proliferous as the pine and fir usially are, but like most other trees it puts foth buds from the Sides of the Small boughes as well as from their extremities.
The trunk of this tree is a simple branching diffused stem and not proliferous as the pines & firs usially are but like most other trees it puts forth buds from the sides of the small boughs as well as their extremities.
A small Thimble Cactus, remarkable for its proliferous stems, a single stem 2 in.
Stems simple, sometimes proliferous at the base, globose when young, afterwards almost cylinder or pear-shaped, 5 in.
Stem simple when young, proliferous at the sides when old, the young plants developing from the apices of the tubercles, and not in the axils, as is usual.
The proliferous plants are usually sterile and much larger, with larger diffuse panicles.
Fronds rootless, proliferous from a cleft or funnel-shaped opening at the base, the offspring soon detached; no rhaphides.
Seringe figures a proliferous flower of Arabis alpina with two sepals only, and a similar occurrence has been noticed in Diplotaxis tenuifolia.
Median and axillary prolification, also, not unfrequently coexist in the same flower; thus, in a proliferous rose forwarded to me by Mr. W.
The Origin and Production of Proliferous Flowers, with the Culture at large for raising Double Flowers from Single, and Proliferous from the Double.
Proliferous flowers of Orchids also occasionally present great complexity in the arrangement of their parts.
Occasionally in prolified flowers the parts of the corolla, like those of the calyx, become foliaceous, and in the case of proliferous pears fleshy and succulent.
Dean I am indebted for a similar proliferous cyclamen, which seems similar to one mentioned by Schlechtendal.
The proliferous group would include such specimens as that of P.
Dianthus prolifer, proliferous Pink, at 8 and at 1.
This is a process that is well known to gardeners in the propagation of Begonias, and it is familiar to us in the proliferous Ferns, where young plants are produced on the surface or tips of the fronds; and Dr.
The Daisy not only produces double flowers, but also the curious proliferous flower called Hen and Chickens, or Childing Daisies, or Jackanapes on Horseback.
