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CHAPTER XVIII. 



OF THE INFLORERCEXCF, OR MODE O? 

 PLOWERING, AXD ITS VARIOUS FORMS. 



INFLORESCENCE, uijloresccntia^ is used bj 

 Lmnaeus to express the particular manner in 

 which flowers are situated upon a plant, de-? 

 nominated by preceding writers the modus 

 jiorendi, or manner of flowering. Of this the 

 several kinds are distinguished as follows. 



Verticillus, y. 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, Lamium, Engl. 

 Bot. t. 768—770, Mentha rubra, L 1413, 

 and CriKopodium vulgare, t, 1401 ; or 

 even on one side only, as Jiumex mari- 

 timusj t. 725. The flowers of IJippuris 



