44 INFLORESCENCE, 



2. Linnaeus remarks that the most elegant specific characters are 

 taken from the inflorescence. Ex The Apple and Pear, two spe- 

 cies of the same genus, Pyrus, are distinguished thus : The Ap- 

 ple bears can umbel, the Pear a corymb. 



Reference. The insertion of simple flower-stalks, whether 

 solitary, cindered, radical, cauline, axillary 9 lateral or terminal^ i* 

 defined under PEDUNCLE, page 16. 



