OF THE CULM. :\2J 



less truly so. The term acauUs however 

 must never be too rigidly understood, for 

 logical precision is rarely applicable to natu- 

 ral productions. 



CaidisfascicidatiiSy a clustered stem, is a 

 disease or accident, in v/hich several 

 branches or stems are united longitudi- 

 nally into a fiat broad figure, crowded 

 with leaves or flowers at the extremity. 

 It occurs in the Ash, several species of 

 Daphne, Ranunculus, Antirrhinum, Sec. 

 In a kind of Tisum, called the Top-knot 

 Pea, it is a permanent variety propa- 

 gated by seed. 



2. Culm us. A Straw or Culm, is the 

 peculiar Stem of the Grasses, Rushes, 

 _ and plants nearly allied to them. It 

 bears both leaves and flowers, and its 

 nature is more easily understood than 

 defined. Many botanists have thought 

 this term superfluous. 



The Culm is occasionally 



Enodis, without joints, as in our common 



Rushes, JuncHs conglomeratus, Engl. 



Bot. t, 835, and effusus, t. 836 ; 

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