128 OF THE STALK. 



Jrticulatus, jointed, as in Agrodh alba, 



U 1189, Airacanescens, t. lldO, Avena 



strigosa, t, 1266, and most other 



grasses ; 



Geiiiculatus, bent like the knee, as Alope- 



curus geniculatus, t. 1250. 

 It is either soUd or hollow, round or trian- 

 gular, rough or smooth, sometimes hairy or 

 downy, scarcely woolly. I know of no in- 

 stance of such a scaly culm as Linnaeus has 

 figured in his Fhilosophia Botanica, t. 4i, 

 f. 111, nor can I conceive what he had in 

 view. 



3. ScAPUS. A Stalk, springs from the Root, 

 and bears the flowers and fruit, but not 

 the leaves. Frimula vulgaris, the Prim- 

 rose, E?igL Bot. L 4, and P. I'eris, the 

 Cowslip, t. 5, are examples of it. In 

 the former the stalk is simple and single- 

 flowered ; in the latter subdivided and 

 man3^-flowered. It is either naked, as in 

 Narcissus, Engl, Bot. t. 17, or scaly, as 

 in Tussilago Farfara, t. 429. In others 

 of this last genus, t, 450 and 431, the 



