ELEMENTS OF STRUCTURAL BOTANY, 



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Fig 135. *'» »^- 



level, the cluster is a rr.r//m/. (Fiy. 13',). If the 

 flowers in a bead were elevated ou separate pedicels of 

 the same length, radiating Uke the ribs of an umbrella, 

 we should have an umhd, of which the tiowers of 

 Geranium and Parsnip (Fig. 49) are examples. A 

 raceme will be compound (Fig. 130) if, instead of a 

 solitary flower, there is a rare»w in each axil, and a 

 similar remark will apply in the case of the spike, the 

 corymb, and the umbel. 



123. The inflorescence of most Grasses is what is 

 called a pamrh: This is a compound form, and is 

 usuaUy a kind ot raceme having its primary- divisions 

 branched in some irregular manner. If the panicle is 



