162 ANTHOTAXV, Oil 1NFLO11ESCENCE. 



I. BOTRYOSE TYPE. 



1. Simple, with lateral axes unbranched and terminated by a single flower, and 



I lowers on pedicels, 



()t -omen hat iM|n;il length on a comparatively elongated axi-. K.M i MI . 



Tlii- lower oni's longer than the upper, and main axis short, . ('m:YMi:. 



()t nearly ec|iial length mi an undeveloped main axis, . . UMI-.II.. 



Flowers -e-sil,. on a very short main axis, HKAI>. 



Flowers sessile on a comparatively elongated main axis, . . . SIMM. 



A fleshy spike or head is a SI-.UMX. 



A scaly-bracted spike is an AMKNT or 



CATKIN. 



2. Com/n:/ii/'/. with lateral axes branched once or more, bearing clusters instead of 



single tlowers. 



Irregularly racemose! v or corvmbosely compound, . . PANICLE. 

 Homogeneously and regularly compound, as 



Karemrs in a raceme, ( DM mi M. KACKME. 



Corymbs corymbose ('UMI-IUMI <'<>I:YMR. 



Umbels in an umbel, COMPOUND UMBEL. 



Spikes (.picate, COMPOUND SPIKE. 



Homogeneously compound, the secondary ramification 



unlike the primary, as Heads racemose, Umbels spiked, 



Spikes panicled, &c. 



II. CYMOSE TYPE. 



1. Simple, with terminal axis of each generation one-flowered. 



Mmopodial, the axis of each generation evidently re- 

 solved into branches, TRUE CYME. 



These more than two, PfetocAottKm or MuLTiPAROUfl Cnot 



These onlv two, . . . Diclirrsium, l)i< liniiii,ni* or BITAROUS CYME. 

 Sympodial, the apparently simple axis continued by 

 a succession of new axes standing end to end, 

 Munuchnsiiimj False Raceme or Spike, Botryvse or UNIPAROUS CYME. 

 Flowers one-ranked on one side of rhachis, HKI.K <UD UNIPAKOUS CYME. 

 Flowers two-ranked on one side of rhachis, SCORPIOID UNIPAROUS CYME. 



2. Compound, with terminal axes for one or more earlier 



generations bearing a cyme instead of a single 



flower, Various sorts of COMPOUND CYME. 



III. MIXED INFLORESCENCE. 



1. Anomalous *i in i >tt . with unbranched one-flowered lateral 



axes (287), such as ... PARTLY UEVKKSED SPIKES OR RACEMES. 



2. Compound, of various combinations, of which there are 



name's for the subjoined : 

 Primary inflorescence botryose. with axis elongating; 



secondary eyinose, THYRSUS. 



Pair of such opposite cymes seemingly confluent round 



the main axis, . VEKTICILLASTER. 



Panicle with some of the ramifications cymose, . . . MIXED PANICLE. 



