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OBJECT LESSONS IN BOTANY. 



Fig. 251. Cyme of Chiokweed {Stellaria media). First, the terminal flower {a) 

 opened ; secondly, from the axils of its highest leaves arose two branches, and ter- 

 minated in the flowers 5, b ; thirdly, from their highest axils arose the flowers c, c, 

 Cy c, from whose axils a fourth set is seen to start, and so on. 



Fig.%5'i. Scorpoid cyme of Fofget-me-not (ifyoso^M^atoim). 



florescence, as shown in Pink-root and Forget-me-not (Fig. 

 252). Before flowering it is coiled from the tip down- 

 wards, and it uncoils as it blossoms. In its nature it is a 

 half-cyme. The fasoicle is a densely packed cyme, as seen 



Diagrams of the forms of axillary infloresoeuoe, showing how they gradually pass 

 into each other. Fig. 'i.at. Spilie. Fig. 'i!i\:. Eaoeme. Fig. 255. Corymb. Fig. 25S. 

 Umbel. Fig. 257. Panicle. Fig. 258. Compound corymb. Fig. 260. Head. Fig. 

 259. Compound umbel. 



