106 INFLORESCENCE. 



be opened, is borne upon a peduncle of two or more nodes, which arc, of couree, 

 transverse to each other (219, c). From one, or two, or all of these nodes, pairs 

 of secondary, opposite peduncles arise, each of which, like the first, is binodal or 

 multinodal, and tcnninatcd by a flower. Again, in the nodes of these secondary 

 peduncles, may arise, in the same manner as before, pairs of tertiarj' peduncles, 

 each to be terminated by a flower, and perhaps to bear still other peduncles, and 

 so on. 



b. Hence it is evident, that in each axil of the forked branches there should be 

 a solitary flower. This, however, is often wanting. LTCgularities may also be 

 occasioned by the absence of other parts. 



308. Fascicle. This is a modification of the cyme, in which 

 the flowers become crowded, and nearly sessile, as in sweet- 

 william, and other species of Dianthus. 



309. Verticillaster or verticil, called also, though improp- 

 erly, uhorl, is a term denoting those reduced cymes which are 

 peculiar to the Labiattc, where two such cymes occupy the 

 opposite axils of each pair of leaves. 



a. Sometimes the peduncle, instead of prodadng flowers, is changed into a ten- 

 dril, as in the vine. 



