Linnean System of Plants, 429 



In conclusion, I would just observe, that the making of 

 mutual exchanges of specimens, from different localities, ap- 

 pears well calculated to further the objects of naturalists, and 

 more particularly of those, situated like myself, whose avoca- 

 tions require an almost uninterrupted attendance on the spot. 

 I have the honour to be, &c. 



Joseph Kenyon. 

 Butler Street, Preston, June 14. 1828. 



Art. VI. An Introductory Vietv of the Linnean System of 

 Plants. By Miss Kent, Authoress of Flhra Dom^stica, Sylvan 

 Sketches, &c, 



(Continued from p. 238.) 



With our last letter we concluded the third class, Trian- 

 dria; before we proceed to the next, it will be well to give 

 some preliminary explanation of the different modes of inflo- 

 rescence. Plants bear their blossoms in as many different 

 fashions as a lady wears her jewels ; which fashions are called 

 the modes of inflorescence. Some flowers grow on the stem, 

 some on the leaves ; some opposite the leaves, some in their 

 axils ; some laterally, some terminally ; some singly, some in 

 pairs, and others in clusters ; and of these clusters there are 



various forms. The flowers of 

 the dead-nettle grow in rings 

 round the stem {,fig, 186.): 

 these rings are termed whirls, 

 or whorls ; and the flowers are 

 either sessile (sitting close upon 

 the stem) or have very short 

 stalks. There is a plant now 

 very common in gardens, 

 called the Buddies globosa, 

 which affords a good specimen 

 of the cluster called a head (Jig,lSl.): the i87 



flowers are collected into a round ball, by 

 growing very near together upon one common 

 stalk ; they are mostly sessile, but have some- 

 times each a short stalk, by which it is attached 

 to the common one. Lavender flowers grow 

 in spikes (fig. 188. a): the spike has a number 

 of flowers, either sessile or on very short stalks, 

 laterally attached to the main flower stalk. A 

 bunch of currants exhibits the raceme : it difters 



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