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wort, chickweed, sedum or live-forever, dog-wood, 

 elder, hydrangea, are opposite-leaved examples. Get 

 as many of these as you can, and begin the study 

 with the inflorescence of an alternate-leaved plant. 

 Compare it with Fig. 284. In this plant each shoot 



FIG. 284. 



terminates in a flower, and the growth is continued 

 by means of branches. In this figure the main, or 

 primary stem (A, A), terminates with a flower which 

 must, of course, be the oldest of the cluster. The 

 branches (B, B, B) continue the growth, blossom, and 



