OF THE INFLORESCENCE. 235 



Fasciculus, a Fascicle, is applied to 

 flowers on little stalks, variously inserted 

 and subdivided, collected into a close bun- 

 dle, level at the top, as the Sweet William, 

 Dianihus barbatus, Curt. Mag. t. 207, 

 and D. Armeria, Engl. Bot. t. 31?. 



Capitulum, a Head or Tuft, bears the 

 flowers sessile in a globular form, as St at ice 



. Armeria , t. 226, Adoxa Moschateliina, 

 t. 453, and Gomphrena globosa, the Globe 

 Amaranthus of the gardens. 



Perhaps the inflorescence of Sanguisorba 

 officinalis, t. 1312, might be esteemed a 

 capitulum, because its upper flowers come 

 first to perfection, as in Adoxa, which 

 seems contrary to the nature of a spike ; 

 but it does not appear that all capitate 

 flowers expand in the same way, and San- 

 guisorba canadensis has a real spike, flow- 

 ering in the usual manner, from the bottom 

 upwards. So Allium descendant Curt. 

 Mag. t. 251, opens its upper, or central, 

 flowers first, contrary to the usual order in 

 its genus; both which instances prove such 

 a diversity to be of small moment. 



