CHAPTER XVIII.
OF THE INFLORESCENCE, OR MODE OF FLOWERINGAND ITS VARIOUS FORMS.
Inflorescence , inflorescmtia , is used by Linnaeus to express the particular manner in which flowersare situated upon a plant, denominated by preceding-writers the modus florendi, or manner of flowering.The several kinds are distinguished as follows.
Verticillus, f. 12C. A Whorl. In this theflowers surround the stem in a sort of ring;though they may not perhaps be inserted on allsides of it, but merely on two opposite ones, asin Dead Nettle, Lamiutn, Engl. Bot.t.768 —770,Mentha rubra, t. 1413, and Cimopodium vulgare,t. 1401 ; or even on one side only, as Rumex ma-ritimus, t. 725. The flowers of Hippuris vulgaris,t. 763, are truly inserted in a ring round the stem,f. 127 : but they are not whorled independent ofthe leaves, and are therefore more properly, witha reference to the leaves, denominated axillaryand solitary.