40 ORGANOGRAPHY AND GLOSSOLOGY. 



3. In the definite umbel or umbellate cyme the pedicels appear to start from the 

 same point as in the indefinite umbel, but the central flowers open first, and the 

 outer pedicels are evidently the youngest and shortest : 



being a definite umbel, flowering centrifugally, it is truly 

 a cyme (Chelidonium, fig. 162). 



4. The definite spike or xpicate-cyme (Sedum, fig. 163) 



12. ChelMonlnm. 



Definite uiuU-1. 



163. Sctiiiiii. Spicate cyme. 



164. MyosotU. Scorpioid cyme. 



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is composed of a succession of independent axes, alternating to the right and left, 

 each terminating in an apparently sessile flower. 



5. The scorpioid cyme (MyoKotis, fig. 164) is a 

 raceme which rolls up in a cro/ier shape, like the tail 

 of a scorpion ; it 



is composed of a 

 / succession of in- 

 dependent axes, 

 which do not al- 

 ternate right and 

 left, but form an 



165. Theoretical figure of the scorpioid cjme. interrupted lllie, 



which tends to 

 turn back upon it- 

 self; in this iii- 

 florescence, the 

 bracts are usually 

 suppressed (fig. 

 165). 



6. In the con- 



166. Box. Glomerule. traded Cyme the 



flowers are crowded, owing to the extreme shortness of the axes; it is called 

 fascicled, when the axes are somewhat lengthened, and are regularly distributed 



167. I. am in rn. Fatcirlca on an indefinite tem . 



