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LEAFY RACEME 



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the Broom, Gooseberry, Pimpernel, some Veronicas, &c., it 

 is customary to refer to the flowers as solitary and axillary; 

 though it will be obvious on comparison that if the bracts 

 were less like the ordinary leaves, we should regard the 

 whole flowering branch as an Inflorescence, and in some 

 of these cases the whole flowering shoot is termed a leafy 

 raceme e.g. Veronica hedercefolia. 



Examples of leafy racemes also occur in 



Whin Erica earned 



Creeping Azalea E. vagans 



St Daboec's Heath E. ciliaris. 



The peduncle in Fig. 3, A, forms a single, on-growing 



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Q 



Q 



o 



o 



Fig. 3. Simple Racemose Inflorescences. A, a true raceme, the axis 

 not terminated by a flower ; B, simple umbel ; C, a spike ; D, a true 

 corymb. 



