£34 OF THE INFLORESCENCE, 



in which the corijmbm of flowers becomes 

 a racemus of fruit, as happens also in that 

 section of the Veronicce, entitled by Lin- 

 nseus corymboso-raceniGS^E. The flowers of 

 Yarrow, Achillea, t. 757 and 753, and 

 several others of the compound class, as 

 well as the Mountain Ash, t. 337, grow 

 in a corymbose manner, though their in- 

 florescence may not come exactly under 

 the above definition. It is worthy of re- 

 mark that Linnaeus in that definition uses 

 the word spica, not racemus, nor has he 

 corrected it in his own copy of Phil. Pot. 

 p. 41, though he has properly altered a 

 slip of the pen in the same line, petiolis y 

 to pedunculis*. This shows he did not 

 restrain his idea of a spike absolutely to 

 sessile flowers, but admitted that extended 

 signification which nature justifies. Many 

 plants acquire partial stalks as the fruit 

 advances towards maturity. 



* It might be expected from the numerous learned 

 editors and copiers of this and other works of Linnaeus, 

 that they should correct such manifest errors as the above 

 which any tyro might perceive. 



