182 OF THE INFLORESCENCE. 



never be the case in a racemus, whether simple or 



compound. See Racemus. 



Of simple flower-stalks, whether solitary or clustered, 

 radical or cauline, axillary, lateral or terminal, we have 

 already spoken. 



Linnaeus remarks that the most elegant specific cha- 

 racters are taken from the inflorescence. Thus the 

 Apple, Engl. Bot. t. 179, and the Pear, form two 

 species of Pyrus, so far at least a most natural genus, 

 the former of which bears an umbel, the latter a corymb. 

 Pyrola wiiflora, t. 146, secunda, t. 517, and umbel- 

 lata, Curt. Mag. t. 778, are admirably distinguished 

 by their several forms of inflorescence. 



