OF THE FLOWER-STALK 115 



already recorded an exception, p. 101, mLachenalia tri~ 

 eolor. The same great author has observed* that " a 

 Scapus is only a species of Fedunculus.'' The term 

 might therefore be spared, were it not found very com- 

 modious in constructing neat specific definitions of 

 plants. If abolished, Pedimciilus radicalis, a radical 

 flower-stalk, should be substituted in its room. 



4. Pendunculus, the Flower-stalk, springs from the 

 stem, and bears the flowers and fruit, not the leaves. 

 Pedicellus, a partial flower-stalk, is the ultimate subdi- 

 vision of a general one, as in the Cowslip, and Sax^ 

 ifraga timbrosa, Engl. Bot. t. 663. 



The Flower. stalk is 



CaulinuSy cauline, when it grows immediately out of 

 the nv.\in stem, especially of a tree, as in Averrhoa 

 Bdlimhi, Rumph Amhobt, v, 1. t. 36, the Indian 

 substitute for our green gooseberries. 



JRameuSj growing out of a main branch, as in Averr- 

 hoa Cai'ambola, ibid. t. 35, and Eugenia malaccen- 

 sis, Exot. Bot. t. 61. 



Axdlaris, axillary, growing either from the bosom of 

 a leaf, that is, between it and the stem, as Anchusa 

 sempervirenSy ^Engl. Bot. t. 45, and Campanula 

 Trachelium, t. \2 ; or between a branch and the 

 stem, as Ruppia maritima^ t. 136.(36) 



Oppositifolius, opposite to a leaf, as Geranium pyreniac- 

 urn, t. 405, G. molle, t. 778, and Sium angustifolium^ ^ 

 t. 139. 



* MSS. in Phil. Dot. 40, (36) [Native.] 



