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litis vinlf'tra, as a true thymus, to the 

 characters and appearance of M'hich it cor- 

 rectly answers. Its ultnnate terminations 

 are sometimes obscurely umbellate, espe- 

 cially while in blossom, which is no ob- 

 jection here, but can never be the case in 

 a racetnus, whether simple or compound. 

 See Racemus. 



Of simple flower-stalks, whether solitary 

 or clustered, radical or caulinc, axillary, 

 lateral or terminal, we have already spoken. 



Linnaius remarks that the most elegant 

 specific characters are taken from the in- 

 florescence. Thus the Apple, Efigl. Bof. 

 t. 179? and the Pear, form two species of 

 Pyrus, so far at least a most natural genus, 

 the former of which beai's an umbel, the 

 latter a corymb. Pyrola uniflora, t. 146, 

 seciinda, t. 517, and nmbeUata^ Curt, Mag. 

 t. 778, are admirably distinguished by their 

 several forms of inflorescence. 



