OF THE INFLORESCENCE, 237 



3, 4, 5 or numerous rays, each of which 

 is repeatedly subdivided, either in a three- 

 fold or forked manner. See Engl* Hot. 

 t. 883, 959, &c. 



Cyma, a Cyme, has the general appear- 

 ance of an umbel, and agrees with it so far 

 that its common stalks all spring from one 

 centre, but differs in having those stalks 

 variously and alternately subdivided. Ex- 

 amples are found in Viburnum, Engl. Bot. 

 t. 331, 332, and the common Laurusti- 

 nus, as also in Sambucas, Elder, t. 475, 

 476, This mode of inflorescence agrees 

 with a corymbus also in general aspect, but 

 in the latter the primary stalks have no 

 common centre, though the partial ones 

 may sometimes be umbellate, which last 

 case is precisely the reverse of a cyma. 



Panic ula, a Panicle, bears the flowers 

 in a sort of loose subdivided bunch or 

 cluster, without any order. When the 

 stalks are distant, it is called diffusa, a 

 lax or spreading panicle, as in Saxijraga 

 umbrosa, t. 663, so frequent in gardens 

 under the name of London Pride, and 



