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a scape; but it also bears the name of scape when, 

 as in the daisy, the dandelion, the plantaia (Fig. 

 52), the cowslip, or oxslip, it carries a collection of 

 blossoms. Indeed, the latter plants, although their 

 flowers are differently arranged, approach very near 

 the primrose in their inflorescence, and we have 

 only to imagine the primrose scapes bound to- 



Fi&- 53. — Spray of common Scarlet Ftmpemel. a a, blosaomH, solitary, 

 springm? from the axils of tlie leaTes, wliicli are'thence called bracts. 



gether part way up, to get the first transition to a 

 compound form of flowering. Again, let us do 

 away with the pedicels of the cowslip blossoms, and 

 mass these together upon the top of the scape, and 

 we get the head, or capUmlmh, such as we see in 

 the daisy and other composites, or, reversing the 



