74 INFLORESCENCE. APPENDAGES. 



8. A Cy7ne ; in this the flower-stalks proceed from 



a centre, as in the umbel, and rise to an 

 even surface, but the stalks are variously 

 subdivided, as in the Elder and Guelder- 

 rose, fig. 2. 



9. A Panicle bears the fructification in a loose, 



subdivided bunch or cluster, without any 

 order, as the Creeping-soft, and many other 

 Grasses, fig. 3. 



10. A Bunch or Thyrsus, is a panicle contracted 



into an egg-shaped figure, as in Buckbean, 

 (Menyanthes) fig. 4, and Butter-bur, (Tus- 

 silago Petasites.) 



The Appendages serve either to support or 

 defend the parts of a plant on which they are found ; 

 they furnish excellent specific distinctions, and 

 require therefore to be carefully considered. 



There are several kinds of appendages. 



1. Stipulce, small leaves or scales situated at the 

 base of the leaf-stalk ; very variously formed, 

 usually growing in pairs, as in Vicia. Rose 



