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FIG. 1C4. FIG. 163. 





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Catkin. 



Racoaie. 



AMENT, OR CATKIN. A spike, with sessile bracts 

 among its flowers. It grows on trees and shrubs, 

 and falls off after a while. 



The RACEME is a flower cluster, where the flowers 

 grow upon pedicels of about equal length along the 

 rachis. 



FIG. 166. 



Glomerule. 



A GLOMERULE is formed by nearly sessile clusters 

 of flowers in the axils of opposite leaves. 



ence of age; but, when this is the case, you must leave the 

 question undecided till you have discovered some other mode 

 of solving it. 



