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now PLANTS AKK rUOPAiiATKI). 



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1S4 A SpadIX is II sj)ik«» with Kiniill llowors crowded on i\ \\\\vV and flcsliy hody 

 or axis. Swtct i<'lii<; and Indian 'rnrnip arc common c.\am|ilcs. In Indiaii- 



'rurnip ( Ki^'. 147) llic spatlix luwiis (lowci's (»nly near 

 tlu> l>ott(>m, hut is naked and chd> shaped ahove. And 

 it is sui't'onnih-d hy a peeidiar h'lif oi' Iti-act in t}u« 

 t'ofin of a hood. 



1.S5. Suih a hrat't <>!• haf enwrapping' a spike f)r 

 ehister of hlossoms is named a Sfxitln . 



iS(). A s«'t of hracts aiound a (lower <'hister. such 

 as those ai'oinid the has«» of the undu'l in Fi^'. i.j.j, is 

 call"il ;iii /ino/iii'i'i: 



1.S7. Amn of I hoe chistei's may Im' compound. That 

 i>;, thoe may l)e lacemes <'histeieil in racemes, makin«; 

 a compound raceme, oi' coi'vmhs in 

 corymhs, or luulids iu undiels, making,'' 

 a CO npo.uid umlid, as in ('arawny 

 ( l''i,i; I ■\^\ Parsnip, Pai'sh'y, and all 

 that family. The little umliels of a 

 «'om|)OUnd uml>el are e.dh'd f'iiih>//r/s ,- 

 and their iuvolncre. if they h.i\t' any, 

 is called an Inni'io'i/. 

 iSS. APailloIe isan irie-ru- ^ ,, ,,,,, 



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Spdillx aiiil.S|i.itli( 



larly branchini: comi>ound 



flower-clusttM', such as would 



be formed by a raceme with 



its lower pcdici'ls laanched. 



Fig. i.j() shows a .sim))le 



panicle, the blanches, or 



what would be tlu' pedicels. 



only once branched. A 



bunch of CJrapes and the tlower duster of Horse-chestnut are 



mori' compound panicles. A crowded conjpound panicle of this 



sort has been called a 7'A//»v' 



189. A Cyme is the general name of flower clusters of the 

 kind in which a llower always terminates the stem or nuiin peduncle, and each of 



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