8 phe HISTORY OF THE SCORPIOID CYME. 
main rachis is a sympode, and the flowers, instead of being all on 
one or on two opposite sides, are disposed spirally, the term 
helicoid cyme is given. 
It appears that the term « scorpioid”’ is used in two senses by 
English authors also. Sir Joseph Hooker and Prof. Bentley use 
it, as DeCandolle did, in a general sense. _ Prof. Balfour’s cenution 
definition both the forms —— by our figures 1 and 2. But 
it also appears that Prof. Balfour and Dr. “Vanes ate the term 
‘‘scorpioid’”’ to a diagram a he 1) which continental authors 
describe as ‘‘ helicoid.”” The editor of the English edition of Sachs’ 
‘ Lehrbuch ’ directs attention to the difficulty. which thus arises; 1 
did the same in the preface to the English edition of Prantl’s 
elementary work ; and this difficulty appears also to have occurred 
to Mr. Henslow. In a review of the English edition of "Prantl 
ure ques 
merely — ge of those of Hotmeister given above, 
and his account he mode in which they were taken is also 
cyme which is Peinse oo accepted, as the foregoing pNdaoape 
show, really correspond with observed facts, or is it merely a con 
venient fiction? Does the axis of the inflorescence ally condint 
of a number of parts, each of which belongs to a separate branch? 
Is the axis really a sympodium or pseud-axis as it is said to be ? 
ladeate of the aa ra is developed in a disproportionate degree, 
and soon. From the om -up there is just as littleto be gen 
as from the same phenomenon in the leaves of Ficus Cye 
athe: The position of the bracts, as seen in Geeta eisideaciann 
