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is globular in the guelder-rose, flat-headed or corymbose 
in the laurustinus. Under this head should be included 
also the vertzzllaster, frequently erroneously described as 
a whorl, a very common inflorescence in the Labiatze, 
in which the flowers of two cymes, often but imperfectly 
developed and borne on opposite sides of the stem in 
the axils of opposite leaves, 
appear as if encircling the 
closely crowded cymes, termed —° 
glomerult, occur in Valertan- 
clla, When a cyme is de- 
veloped only on one side, and 
i in the young state is rolled up 
| | in a circinate_ manner, it 1s 
Fic. 227.—a, Cymose inflorescence of called a scorpzoid cyme, aS im 
Myosotis; B, diagrammatic represen- : 
‘tation of the order of development of the forget-me-not (Fig. 227)5 
the flowers in the scorpioid cyme. [whe n always branchin g into 
two arms of equal strength, with a flower in the angle, as 
in most Caryophyllacez, it is a dichotomous cyme|. The 
great variety of different kinds of inflorescence is increased 
and rendered more complicated by the combination of some 
of those here described.! 
* [The best primary classification of inflorescences is into (1) zde- 
finite or centripetal, in which the lowest flower or that furthest from the 
stem. Similar undeveloped — 
