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process, prolong tlie scape, and plant the blossoms 

 closely along it, still keeping away the pedicels^ 

 and we have the spike such as we see in the 

 pommon plantain (Fig. 52), the main stem still 

 retaining the name of scape. In this case it might 



Fig. 54. — Fine-leaved Heath. Bloaaoms diapoaed in a raceme and partly 

 whorled. 



g,lso be called the, rachis, another term for a stem, 

 but for one which runs in a : straight line from their 

 base through the centre of the inflorescence. 



Of course, howerer, the majority of plants, as 

 pur readers are well ^warey have not the sterns .thus 



