. Elementary botany : theoretical and practical. A text-book designed primarily for students of science classes connected with the science and art department of the committee of council on education . Botany. Mixed Inflorescences 99 The verticillaster consists of two cymose bunches placed on opposite sides of the stem, so as apparently to produce a whorl, as in the Lamium album (fig. 158), and other members of the Fig 158.—Verticillastet oi Lamium album. Mixed Inflorescences.—Sometimes in a plant there is a mixture of the two kinds of inflorescence. Thus in the Dead- nettle, whilst
. Elementary botany : theoretical and practical. A text-book designed primarily for students of science classes connected with the science and art department of the committee of council on education . Botany. Mixed Inflorescences 99 The verticillaster consists of two cymose bunches placed on opposite sides of the stem, so as apparently to produce a whorl, as in the Lamium album (fig. 158), and other members of the Fig 158.—Verticillastet oi Lamium album. Mixed Inflorescences.—Sometimes in a plant there is a mixture of the two kinds of inflorescence. Thus in the Dead- nettle, whilst each separate inflorescence is definite, being a verticillaster, yet, taking the whole plant, the arrangement is indefinite, the lower verticillasters opening first. On the other hand, in most of the members of the natural order Compositae, whilst each capitulum is itself indefinite, yet, taking the plant as a whole, the arrangement is definite, for the terminal capitu- lum is the first to open. Such an inflorescence is said to be 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 Edmonds, Henry. London and New York : Longmans, Green, and Co.
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