OF THE ORGANS. 



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bodies, containing peculiar juices. They are of a roundish 

 or bowl shape, (Tab. V. Fig. 12.) 



On and near the leaves there arise peculiar flask-shaped 

 organs, which separate fluids, as in Cephalotus and Nepen- 

 thes. In this instance, as well as in Sarracenia, where the 

 whole concavity of the leave has such organs, they are ob- 

 served to have peculiar covers. Willdenow called them As- 

 cidia. 



Air-bladders {ampullae) appear on Utricularia and Aldro- 

 vanda. 



IV. hiflorescence. 

 82. 



Inflorescence {inflorescentid) is all that which belongs to the 

 situation and arrangement of the flower, or the way and man- 

 ner in which flowers grow. To leave nothing unexplained, 

 we must first settle the idea of a flower (Jhs ). This is the 

 name given to the whole apparatus, by which impregnation 

 and propagation are accomplished, although, in common con- 

 versation, we give this name only to the coloured coverings 

 of the sexual parts. There are flowers without a corolla, 

 and even without any cover, (Tab. III. Fig. 4, 5.) ; but there 

 can be no flower without sexual organs ; on which account 

 the flowers of the Mosses are doubtful, and in the Ferns and 

 Lichens they cannot be admitted. 



83. 



The support of the flower is called the flower-stalk (pedun- 

 cuius) ; and the small stalks, which are in the neighbourhood 

 of a principal flower-stalk, are called pedicelli. The name 

 rachis is applied in the case of spikes and panicles, to denote 

 the common stalk. 



Marshall of Biberstein uses thecopodium, and Hoffman sper- 

 mapodophorum, to denote the receptacle continued down- 

 wards. 



In many families, the flower-stalk receives other names. 



