. Botany all the year round; a practical text-book for schools. Botany. 357-361.— Diagrams of indefinite inflorescence: 357, compound corymb; 358, compound raceme, or panicle; 359, umbel; 360, corymb; 361, raceme. 276. Nature of the Cyme. — To understand the nature of the cyme, study a forking branch of common mouse-ear chickweed {Cerastium vulgatum), corn cockle, or spurge (^Euphorbia). Examine carefully what appears to be the topmost cluster of blossoms, and it will be found to consist of a single terminal flower (probably already gone to seed), with two smaller flower clusters rising from t
. Botany all the year round; a practical text-book for schools. Botany. 357-361.— Diagrams of indefinite inflorescence: 357, compound corymb; 358, compound raceme, or panicle; 359, umbel; 360, corymb; 361, raceme. 276. Nature of the Cyme. — To understand the nature of the cyme, study a forking branch of common mouse-ear chickweed {Cerastium vulgatum), corn cockle, or spurge (^Euphorbia). Examine carefully what appears to be the topmost cluster of blossoms, and it will be found to consist of a single terminal flower (probably already gone to seed), with two smaller flower clusters rising from the axils of leaves at the base of the peduncle. The older blossoms in the center, being terminal, stopped the growth of the axis in that direction just as we saw in the case of the terminal flower bud of the buckeye, and forced the stem in continu- ing its growth to send out side branches from the axils of the topmost leaves. One or both of these branches will produce, or perhaps has already produced, in turn, a terminal flower which forces its branch to divide again, and so on, forking indef- initely in a manner precisely analogous to the dichotomous. Forking cyme of common Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Andrews, Eliza Frances, b. 1840. New York, Cincinnati [etc. ] American book company
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