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OBJECT LESSONS IN BOTANY. 



Fig. 251. Cyme of Cliiekweed {Stellaria media). First, the terminal flower {a) 

 opened ; secondly, from the axils of its highest leaves arose two branches, and ter- 

 minated in the flowers h, b ; thirdly, from their highest axils arose the flowers c, c, 

 c, c, from whose axils a fourth set is seen to start, and so on. 



Fig. 252. Scorpoid cyme of Forget-me-not {Mijosotis palustris). 



florescence, as shown in Pink- root and Forget-me-not (Fig. 

 252). Before flowering it is coiled from the tip down- 

 wards, and it uncoils as it blossoms. In its nature it is a 

 half-cyme. The fascicle is a densely packed cyme, as seen 



IMagrams of the forms of axillary inflorescence, showing how they gradually pass 

 .iito each other. Fig. 253. Spike. Fig. 254. Eaceme. Fig. 255. Corymb. Fig. 25^. 

 Jmbel. Fig. 257. Panicle. Fig. 258. Compound corymb. Fig. 260. Head. Fig. 

 250. Compound umbel. 



