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CHAPTER XVIII. 



OF THE INFLORESCENCE, OR MODE OF FLOWERING, AND ITS 

 VARIOUS FORMS. 



Inflorescence, injlorescentia, is used by Linnaeus 

 to express the particular manner in which flowers are sit- 

 uated upon a plant, denominated by preceding writers 

 the modus florendi, or mamier of flowering. Of this the 

 several kinds are distinguished as folio wso 



Verticulus,/ 126. 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, La- 

 bium, Engl. Bot. t. 768 — 770, Mentha Rubra, t. 

 1413, and Clinopodium vulgare, t. 1401 ; or even on 

 one side only, as Rwnex maritwjus, t. 725.(91) The 

 flowers of Hippuris vulgaris, t. 763, are truly inserted 

 in a ring round the stem, f. 127 ; but they are not 

 whorled independent of the leaves, and are therefore 

 more properly, with a reference to the leaves, denomi- 

 nated axillary and solitary, 



Racemus,/! 128, a Cluster, or Raceme, consists of 

 numerous rather distant flowers, each on its own prop- 

 er stalk, and all connected by one common stalk, as a 

 bunch of Currants, Ribes rubrum^ Engl. Bot. t. 

 1289, nigrum t. 1291, and Orobus sylvaticus, t. 518^ 



(91) [And many other species of Rumex or Dock.j 



