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particularly good example of the corymbose arrangement. 

 The inflorescence is said to be racemose when, as in the 

 hyacinth, a number of flowers supported on small stems 

 are given off at intervals from the main stem that bears 

 them all. If, however, these subordinate stems of the 

 raceme branch and bear more than one blossom the 

 result is a panicle, a term usually applied to any loose 

 racemose inflorescence in which the stalks are irregularly 

 elongated and branched. The inflorescence of the corn 

 sow-thistle is certainly rather paniculate than corymbose. 



The curious little glandular hairs, looking very like 

 little pins stuck all over the stems and involucres, will not 

 escape notice; they may also be very well seen in the 

 Sonchus oleraceus, the common sow-thistle. 



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