TABLE VI. 



INFLORESCENTIA, INFLORESCENCE, 



Is the manner by which Flowers are joined to the Plant by the Pe- 

 duncle or Foot-stalk. 



446 Verticillus, whorled, many flowers growing round the 



stalk in a circle. 



447 Sessiles, squat, without any manifest foot-stalk. 



448 Pedunculatus, a peduncle, elevating the flowers. 



449 Nunus (450, 451), opposite to the following. 



450 Involucratus (520), furnished with an involucrum. 



451 Bracteatus (44-3), having floral leaves. 



452 Confertus, foot-stalks crowded together. 



453 Distans, the foot-stalks distant. 



454 Capitulum, a head, flowers collected into a globe or head. 



455 Subrotundum (456), nearly of a globular fgure, almost 



round. 



456 Globosum, globular, perfectly round. 



457 Dimidiatum, halved, like a globe cut into two parts. 

 45S«Foliosum, leafy, leaves intermixed with the flowers. 



459 Nudum, naked, without leaves or bristles. 



460 Fasciculus, bunched, a flower growing in bunches. 



461 Spica, sessile flowers, growing alternate on a common pe- 



duncle. 



462 Simplex, a single > spike } undivided. 



463 Com posit a, many little spikes growing from the commoii 



peduncle. 



464 Glomerata, many little spikes crowded together. 



465 Ovata (160), egg-shaped. 



466 Ventricosa (256), swoln, gouty. 



467 Cylindrica, pillar-shaped. 



468 Interrupta, spikes alternately smaller-, 



469 Imbricata (120), scaled. 



470 Articulata (84), knotted, jointed. ' 



47 1 Ramos a, branching variously. 



472 Linearis (169), linear, of equal width, lengthwise. 



