182 OF THE INFLORESCENCE. 



never be the case in a racemus, whether simple or 



compound. See Racernns, 



Of simple fiovver-stalks^vvhether solitary or clustered, 

 radical or cauline, axillary, lateral or terminal, we have 

 already spoken. 



Linnaeus remarks that the most elegant specific cha- 

 racters are taken from the inflorescence. Thus the 

 Apple, Engl, Bot. t. 179? and the Pear, form two 

 species of FyritSy so far at least a most natural genus, 

 the former of which bears an umbel, the latter a corymb. 

 Pyrola nnijlora^ t. 146, secunda, t, 517, and umbel- 

 lata, Curt. Mag. t. 778, are admirably distinguished 

 by their several forms of inflorescence. 



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