SPECIAL FORMS OF INFLORESCENCE. 



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Elder. If it is loosely spreading, not fastigiate, it is called a 

 cymous panicle, as in the Chickweed, Spergula, etc. If it be 

 rounded, as in the Snowball, it is a globous cyme. 





455 456 



455, Myosotis palustris Bcorpoid racemes. 456, Stellarta media a regular cyme. 



065. A scorpoid cyme, as seen in the Sundew, Sedum, and 

 Borrage family, is a kind of coiled raceme, unrolling as it blos- 

 soms. It is understood to be a half-developed cyme, as illus- 

 trated in the cut (454). The fascicle is a modification of the 

 cyme, with crowded and nearly sessile flowers, as in Sweet- 

 William (Dianthus). 



366. Glomerule, an axillary tufted cluster, with a centrifugal 

 evolution, frequent in the Labiatae, etc. When such occur in 

 the axils of opposite leaves and meet around the stem, each pair 

 constitutes a verticillaster or verticil, as in Catmint, Hoarhound. 



45S 



457 



867. The above diagrams show the mutual relations of the several forms of centripetal 

 Inflorescence how they are graduated from the epike (457) to the head (464). Thus the 

 epitce (457) + the pedicels = raceme (458) ; the raceme with the lower pedicels length' 



