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S. Geum, £.1561, but particularly in many 

 grasses, as the common cultivated Oat, and 

 Avena strigosa, t. 1266 ; in this tribe the 

 branches of the panicle are mostly semi- 

 verticillate ; see Air a aquatica, t. 1557. 

 A divaricated panicle is still more spread- 

 ing, like those of Prenantkes muralis, 

 t. 4*57, and Spergula arvensis, t. 1535 ; 

 the last being dichotomous or forked. A 

 dense or crowded panicle, coarctata, is 

 observable in Milium lendigerum, t. 1107? 

 and Agrostis stolonifera, t. 1532, but still 

 more remarkably in Phleum paniculatum, 

 t. 1077, whose inflorescence looks, at first 

 sight, like a cylindrical spike, but when 

 bent to either side, it separates into 

 branched lobes, constituting a real pa- 

 nicle. 



Thyrsus, a Bunch, is a dense or close 

 panicle, more or less of an ovate figure, of 

 which the Lilac, Syringa vulgaris, Curt. 

 Mag. t. 183, Tussilago hybrida and 

 Petasites, Engl Bot. t. 430, 431, are 

 examples cited by Linnaeus. I presume 

 likewise to consider a bunch of grapes. 



