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the plant, have made necessary the use of many descriptive terms, the 

 principal ones only of which will be noticed here. 



Inflorescence. The arrangement of the flowers, whether singly, or 

 in groups upon a more or less branched axis, is termed inflorescence. 

 The branching of the axis in flower groups is almost universally mono- 



FIG 313. 



Figs. 311-13. Three successive stages in the development of the flower of the Rose 

 (Roaa canina). In all the figures, e, c are the sepals ; p, p, petals ; st, stamens ; cp, 

 carpels or pistils. Magnified. After Hofmeister. 



podial, a few cases only (and they doubtful ones) have been regarded as 

 dichotomous. 



Monopodial flower clusters fall under the two types Botryose and Cy- 

 mose, referred to in paragraph 177 (page 139). In Botryose inflores- 



