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BOTANY 



PAKT II 



4. CAPITULUM or HEAD ; flowers sessile, on a shortened main axis (Fig. 488 D). 



(b) lateral axes branched. 

 f>. PANICLE ; a main axis bearing racemes laterally (Figs. 488 , l'. |; ! . 



Flo. 488. Diagrams of racemose infloresceiio's. .1. Uitri-mi'. /.'. S|>ikf. '. Uinl'l. 

 D, Capitnliim. A', Panicle. F, Comiwund umbel. 



6. COMPOUND UMBEL ; an umbel bearing small umbels in place of the single 

 flowers (Fig. 488 F). 



II. Cymose Inflorescences. 



(a) The relatively main axis bearing more- than two lateral branches ; 

 PLEIOCHASIUM. 



