8 AN INTRODUCTION 
A COMMON RECEPTACLE, is that 
which conneéts many Florets in fuch a man- 
ner, as that the taking away any of them 
would caufe an Irregularity. Pa/ea, a Chaff, 
is a thin Subftance, {pringing from the Re- 
ceptacle to part the Florets. 
UMBELLA, an Umbel, is a Receptacle, 
which, from a common Center, runs out into 
Thread-fhaped Foot-ftalks of proportionate 
Lengths. It is called 2 imple Umbel, when 
it has no Subdivifions; @ csmpound Umbel, 
when each Foot-ftalk is terminated by an 
Umbeliula ox little Umbe/; and in this Cafe, 
the Umbel that bears the Umbellula on its 
Foot-flalks, is called an ynzverfa/Umbel; and 
the Umbellula which proceeds from the 
univerfal Umbel, a partia/ Umbel. 
CY MA, a Cyme, is a Receptacle that runs 
into long faftigiate Peduncles *, proceeding 
from the fame univerfal Center, but with 
irregular partial ones. 
SPADIX, is the Receptacle of a Palmf, 
* Peduncles, Flower-ftalks, are called Faftigiate, when 
their Lengths are fo proportioned, that the Flowers 
which they fupport form an even Surface. 
+ This is the proper Senfe of the Term, as employed 
by the Ancients : But Spadix is now ufed in a more ge- 
neral Senfe, viz. to exprefs all Flower-ftalks that come 
out of a Spatha ; fee the Note on this Subject in Chap. 
2. This Definition therefore appears to be too ftrict. 
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