130 THE OPEN BOOK OF NATURE 
called the INFLORESCENCE. There are many kinds 
of inflorescence, as the following notes show : 
Axillary —Flowers springing from angle between 
main stem and leaf (Speedwell, Plate 29, 6). 
leaves being beyond them (Daisy, Plate 3). 
Scape.—Flower-stalk springs straight from root 
and bears no leaves (Primrose, Plate 34, 6). 
Spike. — Stalk bearing number of 
sessile flowers, one above the other 
(Fig. 48). 
Raceme. — Flowers arranged as in 
spike, but each flower has a simple 
stalk (Currant, Fig. 49). 
Panicle.-—A compound raceme (Oats). 
Corymb.—(Greek, korumbos= a cluster 
of flowers.) A raceme with stalks 
getting shorter as they approach the 
top. The flowers are thus brought 
almost to a level (Fig. 50). 
ee Umbel. — Flower-stalks rise from 
Verpena. common centre, each stalk bearing a 
single flower (Ivy). A compound 
umbel occurs when each stalk bears another umbel 
instead of a single flower (Carrot, Fig. 51). 
Cyme.—Irregularly branched stalks, but flowers 
almost on a level (Elder ; Upright St. John’s Wort, 
Plate 14, b). 
Capitulum, or Head.—Flowers stalkless, on a 
flattened receptacle (Daisy, Plate 3). 
Catkin.—Crowded spike of flowers of one sex. 
Each tiny flower protected by a scalelike bract 
instead of ordinary perianth (Hazel, Fig. 52). 
