Cu. XIV 1 



INFLORESCENCE. 



Fig. 55 



a 





331. A raceme, (Fig. 

 55,) , consists of nu- 

 merous flowers on iU. 

 own stalk or pedicel, 

 and all arranged on 

 one common peduncle, 

 as a bunch of currants. 



332. A panicle, (Fig. 

 55,) 6, bears the flow- 

 ers in a kind of loose 

 subdivided bunch or 

 cluster, without any re- 

 gular order, as in the 

 oat. A panicle coi> 

 tracted into a compact, 

 somewhat ovate form, 

 as in the Lilac, is call- 

 ed a thyrse or bunch* 

 a bunch of grapes is 

 a good example of a 

 thyrse. 



331. Describe the raceme. 



332. What is a panicle, and how does a tkyrse differ from it 7 



