THE INFLORESCENCE. 



EXERCISE XXXIII. 

 Definite and Indefinite Inflorescence. 



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ALL solitary terminal inflorescence, and all ter- 

 minal clusters that, like Fig. 156, have their oldest 

 flowers at the top or centre of the cluster, are said to 

 be DEFINITE, because they end the growth of the 

 stem or branch that bears them. 



