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Proliferous flowers of Orchids also occasionally present great complexity in the arrangement of their parts.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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Culture at large for raising Double Flowers from Single, and Proliferous from the Double. '
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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It formed a new species of the Proliferous section, allied to Pultenaea stipularis.
Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 Thomas Mitchell 1823
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Proliferous roses have a special interest, inasmuch as they show very conclusively that the so-called calyx-tube of these plants is merely a concave and inverted thalamus, which, in prolified specimens, becomes elongated (fig. 64) after the fashion of _Geum rivale_, &c. [
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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