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eence in having partial peduncles ; it alfo differs 
from the corymbe in the fhortnefs and equal 
length of it's peduncles, not forming a regular 
furface at top. The vine (vitis) and the 
currant (ribes) bear their flowers in Racemes. 
The Panicle has it's flowers difperfed upon 
peduncles, varioufly fubdivided, and is a 
branching diffuled fpike, compofed of a num- 
ber of fmall fpikes, that are attached along a 
common peduncle. Oats (avena) have their 
flowers in Panicles. 
We have now gone through the various 
terms given by Linneus for the manner in 
which flowers are placed upon their peduncles, 
all of which are ranked under the term Inflo- 
refcence, and fliould be carefully imprciTed 
upon the memory. Flowers are alfo fome- 
times found growing on the leaves, as in 
the genus of llufcus- Dr. Thunberg takes 
notice of this fmgular kind of inflorefcence in 
his account of Japan, having feen it in the 
Ofy'ris Japonica, and calls it a moft rare cir~ 
cumflance in nature. From it's rare occurrence, 
probably, Linneus has not thought it necef- 
fary to diftinguifh this mode of inflorefcence 
by any particular term, though in the rufcus, 
where it occurs, he calls it leaf- bearing. The 
3 umbel^ 
