OF THE INFLORESCENCE. ^35 



Fasciculus, /*. 134, a Fascicle, is applied to 

 flowers on little stalks, variously inserted 

 and subdivided, collected into a close bun- 

 dle, level at the top, as the Sweet William, 

 Bianthus harbatus, Curt. Mag. t. 207, 

 and D. Armeria, EngL Bat. t, 317 . 



Gapitulum^ /. 135, a Head or Tuft, bears 

 the flowers sessile in a git>bular form, as 

 Statice Armeria, t. 226, Adoxa Moscha- 

 telUna, t. 453, and Gowphrena globosa,t\\Q 

 Globe Amarantbus of the gardens. 



Perhaps the Inflorescence of Sanguhorha 

 officinalis, t. 1312, might be esteemed a 

 capitidum, 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 v/ay, and San- 

 guisorba canadensis has a real spike, flow- 

 ering in the usual manner, from the bottom 

 upwards. So Allium desccndens. Curt. 

 Mag. t. 251, opens its upper, or central, 

 flowers first, contrary to the usual order in 

 its genus; both which instances prove such 

 . a diversity to be of small momeut. 



