190 OF THE INFLOUESCENCE. 



oi Phil. Bot.p. 41, though he has properly altered a 

 slip of the pen in the same \mQ.,petiolis^ to pedunculis.* 

 This shows he did not restrain his idea of a spike 

 absolutely to sessile flowers, but admitted that ex- 

 tended signification which nature justifies. M.iny 

 plants acquire partial stalks as the fruit advances to- 

 wards maturity. 



Fasciculus, Jl 134, a Fascicle, is applied to flowers 

 on little stalks, variously inserted and subdivided, 

 collected into a close bundle, level at the top, as the 

 Sweet William, Dianthus barhatus. Curt, Mag. t, 

 207, and D. Armeria, Engl. Bot. t. 317.(94) 



CAPiTULUM,y^ 135, a Head or Tuft, bears the flowers 

 sessile in a globular form, as Statice Armeria, t. 226, 

 Adoxa Moschatellina^ t. 453, and Gomphrena glohosa^ 

 the Globe Amaranthus of the gardens. 



Perhaps the inflorescence of Sanguisorha officina- 

 lis., t. 1312, might be esteemed a capitiilum^ 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 Sanguisorha canadensis has a 

 real spike, flowering in the usual manner, from the 

 bottom upwards. So Allium descendens, Curt. Mag. 

 t. 251, opens its upper, or central, flowers first, con- 



* It might be expected from the numerous learned editors 

 and copiers of this and other works of Linnseus, that they should 

 correct such manifest errors as the above, which any tyro might 

 perceive. 



(94) [The Dianthus Armeria is a native.] 



