THE INFLORESCENCE. 

 FIG. 145. 



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Clustered Inflorescence. 



SOLITARY INFLORESCENCE is where only one flower 

 grows upon a flower-stem. Fig. 144. 



CLUSTERED INFLORESCENCE is where several flowers 

 grow from the same flower-stem. 



Flowers, or flower-clusters without stems, are said 

 to be sessile. 



XOTE. This and the following exercise should be dealt with 

 in the same manner as the first exercises in the chapters upon 

 the leaf and ..stem. 



