OP THE FLOWER-STALK. 129 



scales become leafy, and render tlie Sea- 

 pus a proper Caidis. 



The Stalk is spiral in Cyclamen, Engl. 

 Bot. i. 548, and Valimaia spiralis, a won- 

 derful plant, VI hose history will be detailed 

 hereafter. 



Linnir^us believed * that a plant could 

 not be increased by its Scapifs, which in ge^ 

 neral is correct, but we have already re- 

 cor((ed an exception, p, 112, m Lachenalia 

 tricolor. The same great author has ob- 

 served -j- that " a Sat pus is only a species of 

 Fedunculus."' The term might therefore be 

 spared, were it not found very commodious 

 in constructino; neat suecitic definitions of 

 plants. If abolished, Fediincnlus radicalism, 

 a radical fiower-stalk, should be substituted 

 in its room. 



4. Peduxculus, the Flower-stalk, springs 

 from the stem, and bears the flowers and 

 fruit, not the leaves. Fedicellus, a par- 

 tial flower-stalk, is the ultimate subdivision 

 of a general one, as in the Cowslip, and 

 Saiijraga umbrosa, Engh Bot. t. 663. 



* MSS. in Phil. Bot. 40. + Ibid. 



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