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the plant, have made necessary the use of many descriptive terms, the 

 principal ones only of which will be noticed here. 



Inflorescence. — The arrangement of the flowers, w]i ether singly, or 

 in groups upon a more or less branched axis, is termed inflorescence. 

 The branching of the axis in flower groups is almost universally mono- 



Fie. 311. 



Pia. 312. 



Pio 313. 



Figs. 311-13. — Three piicceseive stages in the development of the flower of the Rose 

 (Rosa oanina). In all the flgnres, e, c are the sepals ; p, p, petals ; et, stamens ; ep, 

 carpels or pistils. Magnified. — After Hofmelster. 



podial, a few cases only (and they doubtful ones) have been regarded as 

 dichotomous. 



Monopodial flower clusters fall under the two typea Botryose and Cy- 

 mose, referred to in paragraph 177 (page 139). In Botryose infloreg- 



