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pporios. Tlifi plnnt reproduces itself in new imlividuals l»y seed. 

 Therefore the seed, and tlie fntil in whieh tiie seed i.s formed, jind 

 the Jlower, from which the fruit results, sire named the Organs of 

 Reproduction or Frurfi'Jication. These we may examine in succes- 

 sion. "We begin, of course, with the flower. And the first thing to 

 consider is the 



11)0. Illflnresi'fllCf, or tiie mo.le of flowering', that is, the situation 

 an<l arrangement of blossoms on the plant. Various as this arrange- 

 ment may seem to be, all is governed by a simple law, which is 

 easily understood. As the position of every leaf is fixed beforehand 

 by a mathematical law which prescribes where it shall stand (192), 

 8o is that of every blossom;- — and by the same law in both cases. 

 For flowers are buds, developed in a particular way ; and flower- 

 buds occupy the position of leaf-buds, and no other As leaf-buds 

 are either termiiml (at the summit of a stem or branch, 42), or 

 axillary (in the axil of a leaf, 43), so likewise 



197. Flowers are either terminal ov a xilhry. In blossoming as 

 in vegetation we Iiave only buds terminating (i. e. on the summit of) 

 stems or branches, and buds from the axils of leaves. But while 

 the same plant commonly produces both kinds of leaf-buds, it rarely 

 bears flowers in both situations. These are usually either all axil- 

 lary or all terminal; — giving rise to two classes of inflorescence, 

 viz. the dt'termiiKite and the indeterminate. 



198. IlulrlpnililiatC IllflnrPSCfllCf; is that where the flowers all arise 

 from axillary buds; as in Fig. lo5, laO, lo7, cV:c. ; and the reason 

 why it is called indetermi- ^ ,.-^ • 



nate (or indefinite) is, that 

 while the axillary buds 

 give rise to flowers, the 

 terminal bud goes on to 

 grow, and contimies the 

 stem indeflnitely. 



III',). Wiiere the flowers arise, as 

 axils (if the ordinary leaves of the | 

 dusters, but are r/./-//A//-// and sn/i/iin/. 

 flowers are jjrodueed near lach <ilher, the accompanying leaves arc 

 usually of smaller size, and often of a different shape or character: 

 then thev are called bracts ; and the flowers thus brouiiht to-rether 



Fi.LT. 1 •"»•"). sinjrly from the 

 It, tiiey do not Ibnn llower- 

 Ihit when sevend or many 



Moneywort (I.ysimnrlii.i niiiiiiiiiilana) of tlio car(l(>n!<, willi .iiillnry tin 



