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CHAPTER XVIII. 



OF THE INFLORESCENCE, OR MODE OF FLOWERING, 

 AND ITS VARIOUS FORMS. 



INFLORESCENCE, inflorescentia, is used by Linnaeus 

 to express the particular manner in which flowers are 

 situated upon a plant, denominated by preceding writers 

 the modus jlorendi, or manner of flowering. 'Of this 

 the several kinds are distinguished as follows. 



VERTICILLUS, /. 126. A Whorl. In this the flowers 

 surround the -stem in a sort of ring ; though they 

 may not perhaps be inserted on all sides of it, but 

 merely on two opposite ones, as in Dead Nettle, 

 Lamium, Engl. Bot. t. 768 770, Mentha rubra, 

 t. 1413, and Clinopodium vulgare,t. 1401 ; or even 

 on one side only, as Rumtx maritimm, t. 725. 

 The flowers of Hippuris vulgar is, t. 763, are truly 

 inserted in a ring round the stem, f. 127 ; but they 

 are not whorled independent of the leaves, and are 

 therefore more properly, with a reference to the 

 leaves, denominated axillary and solitary. 



RACEMUS, /. 128, a Cluster, or Raceme, consists 

 of numerous rather distant flowers, each on its own 

 proper stalk, and all connected by one common 

 stalk, as a bunch of Currants, Ribes rubrum, Engl. 



