l&iJ OF THE INFLORESCENCE. 



CyMA,y; 139, a Cyme, has the general appearance 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. 

 Examples are found in Viburnum^ Engl. Bot. t. 331, 

 332, and the common Laurustinus, as also in Sam- 

 bucus. Elder, t. 475, 476. This mode of inflores- 

 cence 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 um- 

 bellate, which last case is precisely the reverse of a 

 cyma. 



PaniculajJ^ 140, a Panicle, bears the flowers in a sort 

 of loose subdivided bunch or cluster, without any or-^ 

 der. When the stalks are distant, it is called diffusUy 

 a lax or spreading panicle, as in Saxifraga umbrosa^ 

 t. 663, so frequent in gardens under the name of Lon- 

 don Pride, and S. Geum^ t. 1561, but particularly in 

 many grasses, as the common cultivated Oat, and 

 Avena strigosa, t. 1266 ; in this tribe the branches of 

 the panicle are mostly semiverticillate ; see Air a 

 aquatica, t. 1557. A divaricated panicle is still 

 more spreading, like those of Prenanthes muralis, t. 

 457, and Spergula arvensis, t. 1535 ; the last being 

 dichotomous or forked. A dense or crowded panicle, 

 coarctata, is observable in Milium lendigerum, t. 1107, 

 and Agrostis sfolonifera, t. 1532, but still more re- 

 markably in Phelum paniculatum^ t, 1077, whose in- 



Jloscular, when the flowers are alike in size. See Aggregate 

 Flowers.] 



