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barley, darnel-grass, etc., have tte true spiked form 

 of flowering, each spike being made up of numerous 

 spikelets (locustse) ; and these, as we shall see when 

 we come to examine grasses, are made up of a 

 larger or smaller number of blossoms. The pe- 

 duncle of the grass is often called the rachis, and 



Fig. 58.— Bed Dead Nettle ; the blossoms disposed in whorls or verlicillasters. 



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the stem is a culm. When a spike of flowers 

 droops, as it does in the poplar, hazel, etc., it is 

 called a cathim, and the fertile flower of the hop 

 (Fig. 57) gets the same name. When in our next 

 Handful you make acquaintance with the mint or 



