. Leaves and flowers : or, Object lessons in botany with a flora : prepared for beginners in academies and public schools . Botany. INFLORESCENCE. 81 resemble the petals of one corolla, and thfe involucre, formed of many imbricated scales, resembles a calyx. This head is often called a com- pound fluwer. The outer flo- rets are the florets of the ray, the interior are the florets of the dish. See all this illus- trated in Figs. 245-250. 157. The forms of inflo- rescence heretofore described result from axillary buds; but the three following^ come from terminal buds. Cyme is the general name gi
. Leaves and flowers : or, Object lessons in botany with a flora : prepared for beginners in academies and public schools . Botany. INFLORESCENCE. 81 resemble the petals of one corolla, and thfe involucre, formed of many imbricated scales, resembles a calyx. This head is often called a com- pound fluwer. The outer flo- rets are the florets of the ray, the interior are the florets of the dish. See all this illus- trated in Figs. 245-250. 157. The forms of inflo- rescence heretofore described result from axillary buds; but the three following^ come from terminal buds. Cyme is the general name given to all ^°g °° *e receptacle. Fig. 247. A fruit ±x^ J} f? . ' ^ ' n crowned with its pappus. the forms oi termmai mnores- p- „.<, u / ^ t j .tt- tig. 248. Heads of Ironweed {Veriuh- Cence. You may recognize nia)\ all its florets are tubniar. them bv the order in which ^"^ °' them remaining on the receptacle. the flowers open. Ihusj m the cyme, the terminal and central flowers open first, but in the forms before mentioned, the lower and outer flowers first. 158. When the cyme is spreading and level-topped, we call it a cymous corymb, as in the common Elder; and when not level topped, it may become a cymous panicle, as in Chick- weed (Fig. 251), Spergula, and Staff-tree (Fig. 234). 159. The scorpoid cym,e is a very remarkable form of in-. r. 245. Head of Blue Milkweed (Mulgedivm) ; all its florets are ligulate. Fig. 246. A view of one of them remain- 157. Are the forms hitherto desciihed tenninal /)r axillary ? Please define ihe cyme. » 158. Cymose corymb; Cymose panicle. 159. WTiat is a scorpoid cyme ? Name and describe the inflorescence of Bunch Pink; the iuflorescenee of Catmint. 4*. 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 Wood, Alphonso, 1810-1881. New York : A. A. Barne
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