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stem; the flower is here said to have its corolla re- 
flected. 
Flowers also differ in their arrangement. Some 
grow very close and compact around one common 
stalk, which is frequently quite long, as in the Fox- 
glove; this is called a spike. Sometimes they droop 
in long and graceful bunches, like Currants; these 
are styled racemes. In the beautiful Lilac they appear 
in a thick, close head, or ¢hyrse. In some cases they 
hang loosely upon long slender branch- 
ing stems, or peduncles; these are 
panicles, of which the Oats is an illus- 
tration. When they have separate 
stalks which rise from a common cen- 
tre, and spread out in the form of an 
umbrella, as in the Carrot, they are 
described as umbels ; when these stalks 
which rise from one centre become 
much branched, and the flowers more 
scattered, as may be seen in the com- 
mon Elder, we call it a cyme; if the 
clusters grow from different parts of 
the main stalk, and the stems are of 
different lengths, it is a corymb; while if the flowers 
are on very short stems, and form a close, thick-set 
cluster, it bears the name of a fascicle; of this the 
Sweet William is a very familiar example. 
There are also many other modes of flowering 
peculiar to different plants, but these are the most 
important, as many of those which come under 
general observation will be found to have one or an- 
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