CHAP. II. 
INFLORESCENCE. 
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of the latter are sessile, of the former pedicellate. These are 
the true characters of the raceme and spike, which have been 
confused and misunderstood in a most extraordinary manner 
by some French writers. 
80, a. 
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When the flowers of a spike are destitute of calyx ano 
corolla, the place of which is taken by bracts, and when 
with such a formation the whole inflorescence falls ofl" in a 
single piece, either after flowering or ripening the fruit, as in 
Corylus, Salix, &c., such an inflorescence is called an amentum 
or catkin (chaton, Fr. ; Catidus, lulus^ nucamentum, of old 
writers), (Ji^, 82.) 
If a spike consists of flowers destitute of calyx and corolla, 
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