fasciation (fash i ash on)

tio (n-), Wiseman, Surgery. 2. That with which something is bound; a fascia. And even diadems themselves were but fasciations , and handsome ligatures, about the heads of princes. Sir T. Browne, Garden of Cyrus, ii. 3. In bot., a malformation in plants, in which a stem or branch becomes expanded into a flat, ribbon-like shape, as if several stems were laterally coalescent in one plane. This form of monstrous growth is of frequent occurrence, and in the cockscomb ( Celosia ) it is the ordinary state of the plant. A number of phenomena, conceded to result from low vital conditions, were considered by him to be inseparably connected with fasciation , the e ential feature of which is the production of an extraordinary number of buds, with a corresponding suppre ion of the normal internodal spaces. In severe winters the branches in the fasciation wholly die in many cases, while those on other portions of the tree survive. Science , III. 694. 4. In zoöl., marking with fasciæ; barring, banding, or transverse striping,