98 NOMENCLATURE OF THE FLOWER. 



spring from one centre, but differs in having those stalks 

 variously and alternately subdivided. 



We hare instances of the cyme in the alder, wild gelder rose, wall- 

 pepper, radish, crassula, common laurustinus, and in various species 

 of cornel or dogwood. (F. 13.) 



This mode of inflorescence also agrees with a corymb, in general 

 respect, but in the latter, the primary stalks hare no common centre, 

 though the partial ones may sometimes be umbellate, which last 

 case is precisely the reverse of a cyme. 



89. Panicle: The panicula or panicle, is a species 

 of compound inflorescence, which bears the flowers in 

 a sort of loose, subdivided, bunch or cluster, without 

 any order. 



The flowers of the common horse-chesnut, the London-pride, 

 Venetian sumach, and panicled gypsophila, are good examples of a 

 panicle ; but this species of inflorescence occurs most frequently in 

 grasses, as in oats, panic grass, and many others. (F. 16.) 



90. The most common varieties of the panicle, are 

 the spreading, the crowded, and the forked. 



a. Spreading when the stalks are distant, loose, or spreading, 

 as in the spreading campanula. 



b. Crowded when the stalks are dense or crowded together, as 

 in the rampion. 



c. Forked as exemplified in the flowering of the yellow flax. 



91. Bunch: The thyrsus or bunch, is a mode of 

 inflorescence very nearly allied to the panicle, being, 

 in fact, a panicle contracted into an ovate or egg- 

 shaped form. 



We have instances of this kind of inflorescence in a bunch of 

 grapes, in the common lilac, in butter-bur, bastard colts-foot, and 

 other plants. (F. 17.) 



