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PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY 
buds develop from center to circumference. Example: Elder. If 
the cyme be rounded, as in the Snowball, it is a globose cyme. 
A Scorpioid Cyme imitates a raceme, having the flowers pedicelled 
and arranged along alternate sides of a lengthened axis. 
A Glomerule is a cymose inflorescence of any sort which is con¬ 
densed into a head, as the so-called head of Cornus jlorida. 
A Verticillaster is a compact, cymose flower cluster which resembles 
a whorl, but really consists of two glomerules situated in the axils 
of opposite leaves. Clusters of this kind are seen in Catnip, Hore- 
hound, Peppermint and other plants of the Labiatce. 
Pig. 92. —Cymose inflorescences. F, A terminal flower; G, a simple cyme; H, 
a compound cyme. (From Hamaker.) 
The raceme, corymb, umbel, etc., are frequently compounded. 
The compound raceme, or raceme with branched pedicels, is called a 
panicle. Examples: Yucca and paniculate inflorescence of the Oat. 
A Thyrsus is a compact panicle, of a pyramidal or oblong shape. 
Examples: Lilac, Grape and Rhus glabra. 
A Mixed Anthotaxy is one, in which the determinate and indeter¬ 
minate plans are combined, and illustrations of this are of frequent 
occurrence. 
The order of flower development is termed ascending when, as in 
the raceme, the blossoms open first at the lower point on the axis and 
continue to the apex. Examples: White Lily, and many other 
