ILLUSTRATED TERMS. 



The Inflorescence is the manner in which the flowers are 

 arranged upon the stem. It may be either Determinate or 

 Indeterminate. When it is determinate the flowers have all 

 grown from terminal buds. An indeterminate inflorescence 

 expresses that they have grown from axillary or lateral buds. 



A Pedicel is the individual stalk of a flower that is borne in 

 a cluster. 



A Peduncle is the stalk of a solitary flower, or the common 

 stalk that bears a cluster. 



Sessile is the term used when the leaves or flowers grow 

 closely to the stem or branch, and aie without either pedicel 

 or peduncle. 



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When but one flower grows on the end of the stem or flower- 

 stalk, it is said to be Terminal, Solitary. (Fig. 43.) 



It is Axillary when the flower, or flowers, grow from the 

 axils of the leaves ; that is in the angle formed by the leaf, or 

 leaf-stalk, and the stem. (Fig. 27.) 



A Raceme is a flower-cluster in which the flowers grow on 

 pedicels that are about equally long, and are arranged along the 

 sides of a common stalk. (Fig. 28.) 



A Panicle is a compound raceme. (Fig, 29.) 



A Tiiysus is a panicle when very compact, and oblong, or 

 pyramidal in shape. (Fig. 30.) 



