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fiagal evolutions, but is properly applied to that level-topped or fastigiate 

 form which resembles the corymb, as in the older. If it is loosely 

 spreading, not fastigiate, it is called a cymose panicle, as in the chick- 

 weed, spergula, etc. If it be rounded, as in the snowball, it is a glohous 

 cyme. 



420 219 



820, MyoEotis palustrS ■ loovpold raosmes, 219, Stellaria media ; a regul.ir cymo. 



858. A scoRPOiD CYME, as seen in the sundew, Sedum, and borrage 

 lamily, is a kind of coiled raceme, unrolling as it blossoms. It is un- 

 derstood to be a half-developed cyme, as illustrated in the cut. 



359. The PEcnLiAE etolutioh of the 

 CTME is wsll illustrated in the chick-weed 

 (Alsine media). The first opening flower 

 terminates the axis and stops its growth. 

 Then from the pair of axils next below issue 

 two opposite branches, each bearing a pair 

 of leaves and a terminal flower. Next, the 

 same process is repeated with each of these 

 two branches, and so on indefinitely. Thus 

 the stem becomes repeatedly forked, each 

 fork having an older flower in its angle. 



360. Evolution- op the sooiiporo ra- 

 ceme. But let only one branch be developed 

 at the node next below the flower, and that 

 always on the same side, and we have a 

 scorpoid raceme or cyme. Other irregulari- 

 ties occasioned by partial development may 

 also variously disguise the cyme. 



361. Fascicle. This is a modifi- 

 cation of the cyme, with crowded and 



nearly sessile flowers, as in sweet-william (Dianthus). 



362. Glomerule, an axillary tufted cluster, with a centrifugal evolu- 

 tion, frequent in the Labiatae, etc. When they occur in the axils of 



t21, Bplgella Marilandica ; a scorpoid 

 raceme. 



