178 OF THE INFLORESCENCE. 



ronlccCy entitled by Liimagus coi^ijmhosO'j^acemosce^ 

 The flowers of Yarrow, /! \S3^ Achillea, Engl. 

 JBot. t. 757 and 758, with several others of the com- 

 pound class, as well as the Mountain Ash, t. 337, 

 grow in a corymbose manner, though their inflores- 

 cence may not come exactly under the above de- 

 finition. It is worthy of remark that Linnceus in 

 that definition uses the word spica, not racemiis, 

 nor has he corrected it in his own copy of Phil. Bot. 

 p.4\, though he has properly altered a slip of the 

 pen in the same line, peliolis, to pedunculis^'. This 

 shows he did not restrain his idea of a spike abso- 

 lutely to sessile flowers, but admitted that extended 

 signification which nature justifies. Many plants 

 acquire partial stalks as the fruit advances towards 

 maturity. 



Fasciculus,/! 134, a Fascicle, is applied to flowers 

 on little stalks, variously inserted and subdivided, 

 collected into a close bundle, level at the top, as 

 tlie Sweet William, Dianthus barhatus, Curt, Mag. 

 t. 9.07 1 and D. Armeria, Engl, Bot. t.3\7. 



CAPlTULUM,y*. 1 35, a Head or Tuft, bears the flowers 

 sessile in a globular form, as Statice Armeria, 



* It might be expected from the numerous leiirned editors and 

 copiers of this and other works of Linnaeus, that they should correct 

 such manifest errors as the above, which any tyro might perceive. 



