flowers being stalked. A nee raceme or ° ponte as 
in the oat, is distinguished from a simple raceme (Fig. 22 te 
by the individual flowers on the rachis being replaced by 
secondary racemes ; when very much branched [and pyra- 
midal in shape] as in the lilac [or horse chestnut] it is called — 
ard, 
When the lower and outer flowers are borne on 
a) 
Oe Ge e/LV7SC. 
ely 
=] 
Fic. 226.—Dichotomous cyme of 
Cerastium. — 
: a: currant 
ones that the whole inflorescence is more or less nearly flat- 
headed, it becomes a corymd, as in the undeveloped ae 
of many Crucifers [like the wall-flower, or in the elder]. 
the inflorescences of many species of Juncus and Luzula ie 
pedicels of the lower flowers are so greatly lengthened that 
2 
The mode of development 
Fic. 225.—Simple raceme of the 
pedicels which are so much longer than the upper and inner 
they rise even above the upper ones, and the term azthe/a 1s 
~ 
then given to the inflorescence 
of the anthela corresponds to that of the sympodium (see 
The panicle often passes over insensibly nto the 
In the cyme two or more branches of 
76). 
compound umbel. It 
equal strength spring from beneath a terminal flower ; it. 
