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OBJECT LESSONS IN BOTANY. 



Fig. 251. Cyme of Chickweed {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, h\ thirdly, from their highest axils arose the flowers c, <j, 

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



Fig. 252. Scorpoid cyme of Forget-me-not {Myosotis 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 



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260 25S 



257 



E-iagrams of the forms of axillary inflorescence, showing how they gradually pas^i 

 into each other. Fig. 253. Spike. Fig. 254. Eaceme. Fig. 255. Corymb. Fig. 25fi. 

 Umbel. Fig. 257. Panicle. Fig. 258. Compound corymb. Fig. 260. Iload. Fig. 

 859. Componnd umbel. 



