OF THE INFLORESCENCE. 179 



/. 226, Adoxa Moschatdlina, t. 453, and Gom- 

 phrena globosa, the Globe Amaranthus of the gar- 

 dens. 



Perhaps the inflorescence of Sanguisorba qffici- 

 nalis, t. 1312, might be esteemed a capitulum, be- 

 cause its upper flowers come first to perfection, 'as 

 in Adoxa, which seems contrary to the nature of 

 a spike ; but it does not appear that all capitate 

 flowers expand in the same way, and Sanguisorba 

 canadensis has a real spike, flowering in the usual 

 manner,' from the bottom upwards. So A Ilium de- 

 scendens, Curt. Mag. t. 251, opens its upper,, or 

 central, flowers first, contrary to the usual order in 

 its genus ; both which instances prove such a diver- 

 sity to be of small moment. 



UM BELLA, an Umbel, for which some authors retain 

 the obsolete old-English name of Bundle. In this 

 several flower-stalks, or rays, nearly equal in length, 

 spread from one common centre, their summits 

 forming a level, convex, or even globose surface, 

 more rarely a concave one. When each ray is 

 simple and single-flowered, it is called a simple um- 

 bel,jf! 136, as those of Altium ursinum, Engl. Bot. 

 t. 122, Ivy, t. 1267, Primula veris, t. 5, farlnosa, 

 t. 6, clatior, t. 513, and Eucalyptus retinifera, 

 Evot. Bot. t. 84. In a compound umbel each ray 

 or stalk mostly bears an umbdlula, or partial umbel, 

 as Athamanta Libanotis, Engl. Bot. t. 138. This 

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