206 INDEFINITE INFLORESCENCES.—PANICLE. 
i. The Panicle.—This is a sort of compound raceme, that is 
to say, a raceme in which the secondary axes, instead of pro- 
Fie. 423. Fic. 424. 
Fig. 423. Simple corymb of a species of Prunus (Cerasus), a’, Primary 
axis, bearing bracts, 6, b, from the axis of which pedicels, a’’, a”, arise. 
——Fig. 424. Compound or branching corymb of the Wild Service tree 
(Pyrus torminalis), a’, Primary axis. a’, a’. Secondary axes, a”, a”, 
Tertiary axes. 0, 6, 6. Bracts. 
Fig. 425, Panicle. 
ducing flowers directly, branch, and form tertiary axes, &c., the 
ultimate subdivisions of which bear the flowers (jig. 425). Ex- 
amples occur in the Yucca gloriosa, and in the general arrange- 
