CHAP. 11. 



INFLORESCENCE. 



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of the latter are sessile, of the former pedicellate. Tliese are 

 tlie true charactei's of the raceme and spike, which have been 

 confused and misunderstood in a most extraordinary manner 

 by some French writers. 



80, n. 





84 



When the flowers of a spike are destitute of calyx an& 

 corolla, the place of which is taken by bracts, and when 

 with such a formation the whole inflorescence falls off" in a 

 single piece, either after flowering or ripening the fruit, as in 

 Corylus, Salix, &c., such an inflorescence is called an amentum 

 or catkin {chaton, Fr. ; Catulus, lulus, nucamentum, of old 

 writers), {Jiff. 82.) 



If a spike consists of flowers destitute of calyx and corolla, 



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