FLOWERS. 



[SECTION 8. 



Plicate or Plaited (Fig. 194), as in the Maple and Currant. If rolled, it 

 may be so either from the tip downwards, as in Ferns and the Sundew 



(Fig. 197), when in unroll- 

 ing it resembles the head 

 of a crosier, and is said to 

 be Circinate; or it may be 

 rolled up parallel with the 

 axis, either from one edge 

 into a coil, when it is Con- 

 volute (Fig. 195), as in the 

 Apricot and Plum ; or rolled 

 from both edges towards 

 the midrib, sometimes 

 inwards, when it is Invo- 

 196 197 198 'lute (Fig. 198), as in 'the 



Violet and Water - Lily ; 



sometimes outwards, when it is Eevolute (Fig. 196), in the Rosemary and 

 Azalea. The figures are diagrams, representing sections through the leaf, 

 in the way they were represented by Linuseus. 



SECTION VIII. FLOWEB& 



196. Flowers are for the production of seed (16). Stems and branches, 

 which for a time put forth leaves for vegetation, may at length put forth 

 flowers for reproduction. 



1 1. POSITION AND ARRANGEMENT OP FLOWERS, OR INFLOR- 

 ESCENCE. 



197. Flower-buds appear just where, leaf -buds appear; that is, they are 

 either terminal or axillary (47-49). Morphologically, flowers answer to 

 shoots or branches, and their parts to leaves. 



198. In the same species the flowers are usually from axillary buds only, 

 or from terminal buds only; but in some they are both axillary and 

 terminal. 



199. Inflorescence, which is the name nsed by Linnaeus to signify mode 

 of flower-arrangement, is accordingly of three classes : namely, Indeterminate, 

 when the flowers are in the axils of leaves, that is, are from axillary buds; 

 Determinate, when they are from terminal buds, and so terminate a stem 

 or branch ; and Mixed, when these two are combined. 



200. Indeterminate Inflorescence (likewise, and for the same reason, 

 called indefinite inflorescence) is so named because, as the flowers all come 

 from axillary buds, the terminal bud may keep on growing and prolong the 

 stem indefinitely. This is so in Moneywort (Fig. 199). 



