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CHAPTER XVIII. 



OF THE INFLORESCENCE, OR MODE OP 

 FLOWERING, AND ITS VARIOUS FORMS. 



Inflorescence, inflorescentia, is used by 

 Linnaeus to express the particular manner in 

 which flowers are situated upon a plant, de- 

 nominated by preceding writers the modus 

 Jlorendi, or manner of flowering. Of this 

 the several kinds are distinguished as follows. 



Verticillus. A Whorl. In this the flowers 

 surround the stem in a sort of ring; though 

 they may not perhaps be inserted on all 

 sides of it, but merely on two opposite 

 ones, as in Dead Nettle, Lamium, Engl. 

 Bot. t. 768—770, Mentha rubra, t. 1413, 

 and Clinopodium vulgare, t. 1401 ; or 

 even on one side only, as liumex mari- 

 timuSy t. 725. The flowers of Hippuris 



