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FLOWERS. 



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cyme, like that of Fig. 215 with Fig. 216, the diagram of a cyme of an op- 

 posite-leaved plant, having a series of terminal flowers and the axis con- 



tinned by the development of a branch in the axil of only one of the leaves 

 at each node. The dotted lines on the left indicate the place of the wanting 



branches, which if present would 

 convert this seorpioid cyme into the 

 complete one of Fig. 215. Fig. 217 

 is a diagram of similar inflorescence 

 with alternate leaves. Both are 

 kinds <A false racemes (219). When 

 the bracts are also wanting in such 

 cases, as in many Borragineous 

 plants, the true nature of the in- 

 florescence is very much disguised. 



FiQ. 214. Corapound cyme of Hydrangea arborescens, with neutral enlarged 

 flowers round the oiroumference. 

 PiQ. 215. A complete forking cyme of an Arenaria, or Chiokweed. 

 Fig. 216. Diagram of a seorpioid cyme, with opposite leaves or hracts. 

 PiQ. 217. Diagram of analogous seorpioid cyme, with alternate leaves or bracts. 



