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Elementary Botany 



racemose cyme in Campanulas, panicled cyme in Privet, 

 corymbose cyme in Laurustinus, etc. 



The dichotnmous cyme (fig. 156) is one where two branches 

 spring firom beneath the terminal flower, each in its turn capped 

 by a flower and developing two branches just below it, as in 

 the Chickweed and Centaury. If there be three stalks the 

 cyme is trichotomous. 



Fig. is6. — Dichotomous cyme 

 of Cerasiiuj7U 



Fig. 157.— Cymose inflorescence of 

 Myosotis. 



If but one stalk be given off, which is again branched on 

 the same side, and this again repeated a number of times 

 always on the same side, so that the young flowers become 

 coiled like a scorpion's tail or a shepherd's crook, the scorpioid 

 cyme is formed, as in the Forget-me-not, and many of the 

 Boraginaceae (fig. 157). 



The fascicle is a cyme which has a large number of flowers 

 on short stalks, as in the Sweet William. 



The glomerulus is a cyme with a large number of sessile 

 flowers, as in the Box. 



