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spreading out from a common centre, like the rays of an um- . 

 brella, bearing flowers on their summits ; as fennel and carrot. 

 6th. Cyme (Fig. 64, c), resembles an umbel in having its 

 common stalks all spring from one centre, but differs in having 

 those stalks irregularly subdivided*; as the snow ball and elder. 



Fig. 65. 



7th. Corymb (Fig. 65, a), or false umbel, when the pedun- 

 cles rise from different heights above the main stem, but the 

 lower ones being longer, they form nearly a level or a convex 

 top ;, as the yarrow. 



8th. Fascicle (Fig. 65, &), flowers on little stalks variously 

 inserted and subdivided, collected into a close bundle, level at 

 the top ; as the sweet william ; it resembles a corymb, but the 

 flowers are more densely clustered. 



9th. Head (Fig. 65, 'c), or tuft, has sessile flowers heaped 

 together in a globular form ; as in the clover, and button bush 

 (cephalanthus). 



Cyme Cory mb Fascicle Head . 



