. Botany for beginners : an introduction to Mrs. Lincoln's Lectures on botany : for the use of common schools and the younger pupils of higher schools and academies. Botany. BOTANY FOR BEGINNERS. Ch. XIV. Fig. 56. 333. A spike, (Fig. 56, a) is an assemblage of flowers arising from the sides of a common stem; the flowers ar<? sessile, or with ve^y short peduncles, as the Grasses and the Mul- lein. A spike is gen- erally erect. The low- est llowers usually bios som and fade before the upper ones expand. When the flowers in a spike are crowded very close, an ear is formed, as in Indian corn. 3
. Botany for beginners : an introduction to Mrs. Lincoln's Lectures on botany : for the use of common schools and the younger pupils of higher schools and academies. Botany. BOTANY FOR BEGINNERS. Ch. XIV. Fig. 56. 333. A spike, (Fig. 56, a) is an assemblage of flowers arising from the sides of a common stem; the flowers ar<? sessile, or with ve^y short peduncles, as the Grasses and the Mul- lein. A spike is gen- erally erect. The low- est llowers usually bios som and fade before the upper ones expand. When the flowers in a spike are crowded very close, an ear is formed, as in Indian corn. 334. An umbel (Fig. 56, b} presents several flower-stalks of nearly equal length, spreading out from a common centre, like the rays of an umbrella, bearing flowers or their summits; as Fennel and Carrot. 335. A cyme (Fig. 56, c) resembles an umbel in having its common stalks aL spring from one centre, but differs in having those stalks irregularly sub-divided; as the Snow-ball and 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 Phelps, Lincoln, Mrs. , 1793-1884. New York : F. J. Huntington, and Mason & Law
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