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monstrosity is particularly frequent ; and, indeed, it may 

 be often seen in many other flowers. 



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(87.) Modes of Inflorescence. From what we have 

 said, it will be evident that the term inflorescence, is 

 either applied to the appearance presented by the general 

 disposition of all the flowers on a plant taken collect- 

 ively, or it is confined to certain groups of flowers 

 which are found on different branches ; or, lastly, it 

 is restricted to solitary flowers produced from sepa- 

 rate buds. In order to understand the general law, 

 which regulates the distribution of flowers under every 

 form of inflorescence, according to the vague appli- 

 cation of this term in descriptive botany, it will be 

 well to consider the manner in which we may conceive 

 it possible, for a succession of buds to become developed 

 upon the main stem, or any of the branches. Assuming 

 any bud (fig. 78.) from which the stem or given branch 

 is developed, to be the "primary" bud (No. 1.) of 



