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CYMOSE INFLORESCENCE 



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B 



Fig. 2. Stages in the development of a Sympodial Inflorescence 

 (cyme) with one false axis or mouochasium. A, yonng stage shortly 

 after emergence from the bud, the scales of which are visible below : the 

 primary axis ends in a flower (1), and then gives rise to a lateral axis in 

 the axil of a bract to the left ; this lateral axis ends in the flower (2) and 

 repeats the process on its right, and so on alternately. B, the several 

 axes, of which more have been formed, are straightening out ; until, in C, 

 the process has gone so far that little more than the position of the bracts 

 remains to show that the whole series of successive axes is not a single 

 continuous axis. In reality it is a false axis (monochasium) built up 

 sympodially. 



