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cence; in Grasses universally, and otherwise only in developed 

 pedicels. 



12. The thyrse (thyrsus), a panicle, with very short pedicels; 

 with the exception of Grasses, found almost universally. 



Both terms are applied also to once compound inflorescences. 

 DeCandolle uses the term thyrsus for those in which inflor. cen- 

 trifuga and centripeta are mingled ; others differently ; all arbitra- 

 rily. 



13. The anthurus, an inflorescence that has the kind of aspect of 

 that of the Amaranthus candatm or the Chenopodiacece. 



b. Inflorescentia centrifuga. 



14. The cyme (cyma), also in manifold combinations, in which, 

 however, we do not consider whether the side ramifications follow 

 the inflor. centripeta or centrifuga in longer pedicels. 



15. The bunch (fasciculus), a manifold compound cyme, with 

 short pedicels, and rather crowded. 



16. The Anthela, all kinds of inflorescences in the Juncece and 

 Cyperacecs. 



17. The glomerule (glomerulus), many inflorescences that ap- 

 pear almost like a capitulum, and consist only of ill-formed, im- 

 perfect flowers, as in some Chenopodiacece, Urticacece, and Juncacece. 



I leave every one with thinking faculties to draw for himself the sad 

 conclusions which the preceding survey affords ; and I think that I have 

 not to defend myself to any one who is acquainted with our literature, 

 against the charge that the foregoing is a frivolous vagary of my 

 humour. Roper first attempted a scientific development of the inflo- 

 rescence. No one that I know of has followed him, except Lindley. 

 Physiologists seem not to have accounted it of sufficient importance. 

 Systematists have too much to do with their herbaria, and it is much 

 easier to coin a new word than to study minutely the progressive de- 

 velopment through a large series of plants. For the sake of those unac- 

 quainted with these matters I will insert the following examples: In 

 Lotus corniculatus : Koch (Syn. Fl. Germ.), a capitulum, Kunth (Fl. 

 Berol.), an umbella, Reichenbach (Fl. Excurs.), actually & fasciculus. To 

 Eriophnrum vaginatum Kunth gives a spica ; Koch, a spicula. For Cla- 

 dium Mariscus Kunth has umbellce axillares et terminates ; Koch, Anthelce 

 axillares et termin. ; Reichenbach, cymce A. et t. ; in Isolepis supina : Koch 

 spiculis in fasciculum aggregatis ; Kunth, spicis conglomeratis. I have 

 here omitted the French and English botanists, or the matter would 

 have been still more glaring. 



I have also omitted the great crowd of synonymes as altogether use- 

 less, and even only introduced the more useful of the names of peculiar 

 inflorescences : otherwise I must have written a whole book upon them, 

 and truly one upon empty words, 



II. Of the Parts of the Flower at the Time of Blooming. 



144. The flower originates from a bud (gemma, here commonly 

 termed alabastrus), and is nothing more than a particular modifi- 



