The quincuncial arrangement of the dots is effected by the punching, moistening, and fastening down of odd and even dots, combined with the forward movement of the tissue to be chenilled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881] Reference

Nevertheless the spiral order does occur in the floral leaves as well as in those of the stem; it often happens, especially when the organs are numerous, that they form spiral series; and the same holds good very generally, when the parts of the flower are uneven in number, as in the very common quincuncial arrangement of the sepals, &c.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

Towards the tower Criere stood the orchard full of all fruit-trees, set and ranged in a quincuncial order.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1] Reference

All of which is simply to say: if Charles Sanders Peirce were alive today, he would definitely have a blog. farkItButton (encodeURIComponent ( 'Pragmatic quincuncial Cartography'), encodeURIComponent ( 'http://blogs. discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2005/09/13/pragmatic-quincuncial-cartography/'), "16x16").    From Wordnik.com.  [Pragmatic Quincuncial Cartography] Reference