I'l.OWKKS: THr.IR AUUAN(iKMKNT ON TIIK STKM. 



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and so on in lopnlnr succession. Now the phice for hiuls is in tho nxils of the 

 leaves {(urilluni hmln, 58), and at the rnd of tlio stem {(rniiina/hmf, 57): sotlu'se 

 are also the jilaecs from wlildi llowers spring. Fi«;. i^^8 is 11 'riillium, with its 



l|i)Wt'r f'nnitia/y that is, from thf summit of tht' stem. 

 Ki^. 139 is a piece of Moneywort, witli aj-Hhtni flowoi*s, 

 /.'. , from the axils of the h'avcs. The Moriiin^'-(5lory 

 (Fi;,'. 4) also has its (lowors axillary. 



170. Solitary Flowers, in Im.Oi these ca.sos the 



hlossoms aic solitary, that is, siti<,'le. There is only 



one on the plant in Trillium (Fif^. 



138). In Fi;;. i;;9, thric is only 



one from the sanu' axil ; and al- 



thon^'h, as the stem ^'rows on, 



flowers appear in succession, tliey 



are so scattered, and so accom- 



panii'd hy leaves, that they cannot 



be said to form a flower-cluster. 



171 FlOWer-CiuUerS are formed 

 whenever the lilossoms are more 

 numerous or closer, and the ac- 

 companying leaves are le.ss con- 

 sj)icuous. Fifj. 140 is a cluster 

 (like that of Lily of the Valley, 

 Fig. 3) of the kind called a 

 raceme. On com})arin<; it with 

 Fig. 139, we may percene that it differs maiidy in having the leaves, one under 

 each hlo.s.som-stalk, red oed to little scales, which are inconspiciU)Us. In both, 

 the Howers really spring fi-om the axils of leaves. So they do in all the follow- 

 ing kinds of flower-clusters, until we reach the Cyme. 



172. The leaves of a flower-cluster take the name of IlracJ^. The.se are 

 generally very different from the ordinary leaves of the plant, commonly nnich 

 smaller, and often very small indeed, as in Fig. 140. In the figures 141 to 144, 

 the bracts are larger, and more leaf-like. They aie the leaves from whose axil 

 the flower ari.ses, Sometimes there are bracts ahso on the .separate flower-stalks 

 (as ou the lower ones in Fig. 140) : to distinguish these we cull them Bmctlets. 



l:!.s 

 TL'rmiiial Flownr. 



A.xllliiry Flowers, 



