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its branches. The plan of a cyme is illustrated in the following figures. Fig. 
150, to begin with, is a stem terminated by a flower, which plainly comes from 
a terminal bud or is a terminal flower. Fig. 151 is the same, which has started 
a branch from the axil 
of each of the uppermost 
_ leaves ; each of these 
ends in a flower-bud. 
Fig. 152 is the same, 
with the side branches 
again branched in the 
same way, each branch 
ending in a flower-bud. 
This makes a cluster 
looking like a corymb, as 
shown in Fig. 143 ; but observe that here in the cyme the middle flower, a, 
which ends the main stem, blossoms first ; next, those flowers marked b ; then 
those marked c , and so on, the centre one of each set being the earliest ; while in 
the corymb the blossoming begins with the outermost flowers and proceeds regu 
larly towards the centre. The Elder, the Cornel, and the Hydrangea (Fig. 169) 
have their blossoms in cymes many times branched in this way; that is, they have 
compound cymes . 
190. A Fascicle is only a close or very much crowded cyme, with very short; 
footstalks to the flowers, or none at all, as the flower-cluster of Sweet-William. 
§ 2. Forms and Kinds of Flowers . 
191. The Parts of a Flower were illustrated at the beginning of the book, in ; 
Chapter I., Section I. Let us glance at them again, taking a different flower for 
the example, namely, that of the Three-leaved Stonecrop. Although small, this 
has all the parts very distinct and regular. Fig. 153 is a moderately enlarged view 
of one of the middle or earliest flowers of this Stonecrop. (The others are like it* 
only with their parts in fours instead of fives.) And Fig. 154 shows two parts of 
each sort, one on each side, more magnified, and separated from the end of the 
flower-stalk (or Receptacle), but standing in their natural position, namely, below or 
outside a Sepal, or leaf of the Calyx ; then a Petal, or leaf of the Corolla ; then a 
Stamen ; then a Pistil . 
