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This youth alked for an axe and a fpike-nail for his father, who was then on board.
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The flowers are hermaphrodite, and in the greater number difpofed in a fpike at the. extremity of the branches.
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The fpike of flowers remained eight or ten days longer; when I obfeivvd, in gathering the branch for my heibariuni, that the fruit of that flower only on which the experiment had been made had Iwelkd to the fize of a bean.
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A filiform Itceptacle connecting florets longitudinally into Q_ a fpike i R A a fplkc: as in Panicum Cms corvi and Crut gal/iy Lolium, and many other Grafles. —
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This term is applied in the fame fenfe to a fpike (/pica dijlicha); Jloribus ad ut rum que latus fpeclantibus? all the flowers pointing two ways.
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A fpike of flowers termi - nated by a coma is named Cotnofe: and plants with fuch flowers are ranged in the thirty* fixth of the natural orders, in Linneus's Ph'do - fophia Botanica.
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A glomerate fpike — fpiculis varie congejlis; having the fpikelets or cemponent fpikes varioufly heaped together: as in Panicum italicum. —
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The fame term is applied to the calyx; as in Eupkrajia, Dianthus chinenftSy &c. — to the ftyle — and to the fpike.
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Applied to the fpike — to the perianth, as in JEJ cuius — to the corolla, as in Digitalis.
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Clofe and narrow, fo as very much to refemble a fpike.
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