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familiar examples. "When this bunch of flowers has 

 separate, divided, or irregular foot-stalks, like the 

 branches of a tree, it is called a cyme : the cornel and 

 elder flowers will show the arrangement of a cyme. 

 A fascicle has the flowers arranged on short foot-stalka, 

 like the sweet-william. The spadix shows the flower, 

 as in the arum, enclosed in a large sheath. The early 

 catkins are another species of inflorescence. The alder, 

 palm, willow, and hazel catkins afford several examples. 

 The wlwrl designates the flowers growing round a 

 joint in the main stem, as in the blind or dead nettle. 

 Such are the principal forms of inflorescence, which 

 distinguish alike the wild and the cultivated flowers. 

 As the flowers pass away the fruit begins to appear. 



The FEUIT is the enlarged ovary or seed-vessel. Its 

 forms are various. "When it is a dry hollow vessel, 

 like the poppy, it is termed a capsule; when formed of 

 two long valves, as the pea, bean, and vetch, it is 

 termed a. pod; when the pod is longer than it is broad, 

 it is called a siligue, as the stock; when broader than 

 long, as the shepherd's purse, a silicle. The legume is 

 a long pod with the seeds attached to one seam only ; 

 the berry a pulpy fruit, as the currant ; the nut is a 

 dry fruit in a hard shell, as the hazel ; the dntpe a nut 



