S3S OP THE INPLORESGENCi. 



S. Geum, t. 1561, but particularly in maiiy 

 grasses, as the common cultivated Oat, and 

 Avcna btrigosa, ^.1266; in this tribe the 

 branches of the panicle are mostly semi- 

 verticillate ; see Aira aquatica, t. 1557* 

 A divaricated panicle is still more spread- 

 ing, like those of Frenanthes ?nuralisy 

 t. 457, «nd Spergula a7've?isis, /. 1535 ; 

 the last beino; dichotomous or forked* A 

 dense or crowded panicle, coarciata, is 

 observable in Milium lendiger^mn^ t. 1107^ 

 and Agrostis stolonifera, t* 1532, but still 

 more remarkably in Fhleum poniculatwn, 

 t. 10775 whose inflorescence looks, at iirst 

 sight, like a cylmdrical spike, but when 

 bent to either side, it separates into 

 branched • lobes, constituting a real pa- 

 nicle. 



Thyrsus,/". 141, a Bunch, is a dense or close 

 panicle, more or less of an ovate figure, of 

 which the Lilac, Si/ringa vulgaris^ Curt. 

 Mag^ t, 183, Tiissilago hi/brida and 

 Petasites, Engl Bot. L 430, 431, are 

 examples cited by Linneeus. I presume 



. likewise to consider a bunch of grape'^, 



