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THE YEGETABLE KINGDOM. 



Creeping Soft Gi 



The PANICLE, the same as the 

 raceme, but having the flower- 

 stalks themselves divided into 

 branches, as in Creeping Soft 

 Grass (Holeus mollis). This 

 and the spike are the most usual 

 form of inflorescence found 

 among grasses, in many of which 

 the panicle, however, is often 

 contracted almost to a spike. 



The CYME, this resembles the pan- 

 icle shortened in such a manner 

 as to become flattened or almost 

 corymbose, as in the Elder Tree 

 (Sambucus nigra), in which 

 there are five principal stalks 

 of inflorescence. 



CAPITTJLUM, in which the flowers 

 arise from a broad round head 

 or receptacle as in the composite 

 flowers, such as Chamomile 

 (Anthemis nobilis) ; in such 

 flowers the star-like ray of 

 florets are called the florets of 

 the ray, and those composing 

 the centre the florets of the 

 disc. 



Chamomile. 



