SPECIAL FORMS OF INFLORESCENCE. 



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Elder. If it is loosely spreading, not fastigiate, it is called a 

 cymous panicle, as in the Chickweed, Spergula, etc. If it be 

 rounded, as in the Snowball, it is a globous cyme. 



455 456 



455, Myosotis palustris scorpoid racemes. 456, Stellaria media a regular cyme. 



G65. A scorpoid cyme, as seen in the Sundew, Sedum, and 

 Borrage family, is a kind of coiled raceme, unrolling as it blos- 

 soms. It is understood to be a half-developed cyme, as illus- 

 trated in the cvit (454). The fascicle is a modification of the 

 cyme, with crowded and nearly sessile flowers, as in Sweet- 

 William (Diantlms). 



366. Glomerule, an axillary tufted cluster, with a centrifugal 

 evolution, frequent in the Labiatse, etc. When such occur in 

 the axils of opposite leaves and meet around the stem, each pair 

 constitutes a verticillaster or verticil, as in Catmint, Hoarhound. 



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463 464 



461 



459 



458 



457 



367. The above diagrams show the mutual relations of the several forms of centripeta/ 

 Inflorescence how they are graduated from the spike (457) to the head (464). Thus the 

 spike (457) + the pedicels = raceme (458) ; the raceme with the lower pedicels length- 



