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flowers, as respects many peculiar traits connected with 

 their form, structure, and so on. 



If the flower has but one petal, it is said to be monopetalous ; if 

 two, dipetalous, and so on ; if no petals, apetalous ; if the corolla is 

 of the butterfly-shaped, then the flower is termed papilionaceous ; 

 if in the shape of a bell, companulate, and so on. The terms umbel- 

 late or umbelliferous, amentaceous, glumose, spadicious, and cy- 

 mose, have been lately mentioned. 



72. Double Flowers .-The only kind of flowers 

 which remain to be mentioned, are the double. These 

 flowers are not natural productions, but the consequence 

 of cultivation, the internal organs becoming converted 

 into petals. 



Double flowers will not serve the purposes of a systematic 

 botanist, since the principal organs upon which any system might be 

 founded, are no longer present. They are only regarded as devi- 

 ations from the general laws of nature, and are totally uninteresting 

 to any but the florist. 



INFLORESCENCE. 



73. Inflorescence, is a term employed to express the 

 particular manner in which flowers are situated npon a 

 plant, otherwise denominated, the manner of flowering. 



It is not necessary to mention in particular, the different varieties 

 of inflorescence peculiar to simple flowers. If the flower is situated 

 on a stalk or peduncle, it is said to be pedunculated ; if it adheres 

 to the plant without a stalk, sessile ; if it is placed on the stem, cau- 

 linar ; if on the root, radical, and so on. 



74. There are ten modes of flowering peculiar to 

 aggregate flowers. These are, the whorl, the cluster, 



