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umbel, which has been before explained, the 
cyme, and the fpadix, he has ranked under 
the general term Receptacle, The cyme and 
umbel are much alike, both having a number 
of flender peduncles growing from one com- 
mon centre, which rife to the fame height ; 
they differ, however, in the cyme having it's 
partial peduncles difperfed along the {talk 
without any regular order. Elder (fambucus) 
and lauruftinus (viburnum) are fpecimens of 
the cyme. The term Spadix is ufed to ex~ 
prefs every flower-ftalk that is protruded 1 
from a fpathe or (heath; the family of palms 
have their flowers in a fpadix, which is 
branched. The fpadix of all other plants is 
ilmple. There is yet another term, which 
Linneus makes ufe of, which is Rachis ; this 
means only the ftem, on which the flowers 
grow that form a^f: ike. He defines the Rachis 
to be a thread-form receptacle, connecting 
the florets longitudinally into a fpike. There 
may appear much difficulty in the attain- 
ment of an acquaintance with fo great a 
variety of terms which convey no precife 
ideas ; an attentive confideration of them, 
with a comparifon of the definitions of the 
different kinds of Fulcra and modes of InSo- 
refcence, 
