INFLORESCENCE; 

 OR, MANNER OF FLOWERING. 



1. Whorl. An assemblage of flowers surrounding the atom 01 

 its branches, constitute a whorl or ring : this is seen in the Mint 

 and many of the labiate plants. 



2. Raceme, or cluster, consists of numerous flowers each on 

 its own stalk or pedicle, and all arranged on one common pe- 

 duncle; as, a bunch of Currants. 



5. Panicle bears the flowers in a kind of loose subdivided 

 bunch or cluster, without any regular order; as in the Oat A 

 panicle contracted into a compact, somewhat ovate form, as in 

 the Lilac, is called a Tfiyrse, or bunch; a bunch of Grapes is a 

 good example. 



4. Spike. This is an assemblage of flowers arising from the 

 sides of a common stem: the flowers are sessile, or with very 

 short peduncles; as, the Wheat and the Mullein. 



6. Umbel several flower-stalks, of nearly equal length, 

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

 brella, bearing flowers on their summits; as, Fennel and Carrot. 



6. Cyme resembles an umbel in having its common stalks all 

 spring from one centre, but differs in having those stalks irregu- 

 larly subdivided; as, the Snow-ball and Elder. 



7. Corymb, or false umbel when the peduncles rise from'dif- 

 ferent heights above the main stem; but the lower ones being 

 longer, they form nearly a level, or convex top; as, the Yarrow. 



8. Fascicle flowers on little stalks variously inserted and 

 subdivided, collected into a close bundle, level at the top; as, 

 the Sweet William. 



9. Head, or tuft, has sessile flowers heaped together in a 

 globular form; as in the Clover. 



10. Ament, or catkin, is an assemblage of flowers composed 

 of scales and stamens, arranged along a common thread-like re- 

 ceptacle; as in the Chestnut and Willow. 



11. Spadix is an assemblage of flowers, growing upon a 

 common receptacle, and surrounded by a spatlm, or sheath; as 

 in the Egyptian I.ily. 



