100 or THE FLOWER-STALK. 



The Stalk is spiral in Cyclamen, Engl. Bot.t.-54:8, 

 and Valhmria spiratis, a wonderful plant, whose his- 

 tory will be detailed hereafter. 



Linnaeus believed* thata plant could not be increased 

 by its Scapus ; which in general is correct, but we have 

 already recorded an exception, p. 86*, in Lachenalia 

 tricolor. The same great author has observed f that 

 <( a Scapus is only a species of Pedunculus" The term 

 might therefore be spared, were it not found very com- 

 modious in constructing n-.'at specific definitions of 

 plants. If abolished, Pedunculits radicalis, a radical 

 flower-stalk, should be substituted in its room. 



4. PEDUNCULUS, the Flower-stalk, springs from the 

 stem, and bears the flowers and fruit, not the leaves. 

 Pcdicellus, a partial flower-stalk, is the ultimate 

 subdivision of a general one, as in the Cowslip, and 

 Savifraga umbrosa, Engl. Bot. t. 663. 

 The Flower-stalk is 



CauUniiSy cauline, when it grows immediately out of 

 the main stem, especially of a tree, as in Averrhoa 

 Bilimbi, Rumph. Amboin. v. 1. t. 36, the Indian 

 substitute for our green gooseberries. 

 Rameus, growing out of a main branch, as in 

 Averrhoa Carambola, ibid. t. 35, and Eugenia 

 malaccensiSy Exot* Bot. t. 61. 

 Axillaris, axillary, growing either from the bosom 

 of a leaf, that is, between it and the stem, as 



* S. in PM. Bot. -10. f Hid. 



