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applied the term cyme to the inflorescence of the Boraginacece, which, 

 on account of the peculiar manner in which it unrolls itself, he 

 terms cyma scorpioides ; and he adds the fiction, that the under- 

 most, first-blooming flower is really the terminal blossom, and the 

 second, the terminal blossom of side axis, is developed in a dispro- 

 portionate degree, &c. From the rolling up there is just as little 

 to be deduced as from the same phenomenon in the leaves of 

 Ficus and Cycadacece. The position of the bracts, as seen in Ce- 

 rinthe, contradicts this fiction ; and the history of the development, 

 which can alone determine the point, appears to me to prove (I 

 own from a few very imperfect observations) that here a one-sided 

 raceme or spike is present, whose unrolling is only a peculiar 

 situation of the buds. 



C. Once compound Inflorescences. 



a. Pure or homomorphous. 

 a. Inflorescentia centripeta. 



6. The spike of the Grasses (spied). Several spikes united in a 

 spicate arrangement, as in the Grasses ; the component spikes are 

 termed spikelets (spiculce). 



7. The umbel (umbella)\ umbels united in umbels; the com- 

 ponents are termed umbellules (umbellulcB). 



N. B. Sound terminology would have long ago rejected these 

 words, and exchanged them for spica and umbella composita. 



8. The panicle (panicula)\ see No. 11. 



None of the remaining combinations deserve special names, and 

 may probably be classed among those mentioned under 9 and 11. 



b. Inflorescentia centrifuga. 



9. The cyme or false umbel (cyma) ; see No. 5. and No. 14. 



10. The anthela; see No. 16.' 



/3. Mixed or heteromorphous. 

 a. Inflorescentia centrifuga. 



See No. 14. 



b. Inflorescentia centripeta. 



See No. 11. 



D. Many times compound Inflorescences. 

 a. Inflorescentia centripeta. 



1 1. The panicle (panicula). Every many -branched inflores- 



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