The Encyclopaedia Britannica; .. A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . from thebracts below the first-formed flower. The general name ofcyme is applied to the arrangement of a group of flowersin a definite inflorescence. A cymose inflorescence is aninflorescence where the primary floral axis before ter-minating in a flower gives off one or more lateral unifloralaxes which repeat the process,—the development being onlylimited by the vigour of the plant. The floral axes are thuscentrifugally developed. .The cyme, according to itsdevelopment, has been characterized as biparous o
The Encyclopaedia Britannica; .. A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . from thebracts below the first-formed flower. The general name ofcyme is applied to the arrangement of a group of flowersin a definite inflorescence. A cymose inflorescence is aninflorescence where the primary floral axis before ter-minating in a flower gives off one or more lateral unifloralaxes which repeat the process,—the development being onlylimited by the vigour of the plant. The floral axes are thuscentrifugally developed. .The cyme, according to itsdevelopment, has been characterized as biparous orvniparoiis. In fig. 165 the biparous cyme is representedin the flowering branch of Erythrsea Centaurium. Herethe primary axis a ends in a flower/, which has passed 124 BOTANY [rEPKODUCTIVE into the state of fiuit. At its base two lca\C3 aro produced,each of which is capable of developing buds. These arofiovvcr-buds, and constitute secondary axes a a, ending ineingle flowers//, which arc thus terminal and solitary ;and at the base of these axes a pair of opposite leaves is. Fig. 1C4. O^Dtlonollo ^Genttana aeaults)b, flower, c, biacU Fig. Ijranch of Eryi^-traCeniaut-tum, produced, giving rise to tertiary axes a a a, ending insingle flowers/ / /, and so on. The term dichotonioiishas also been applied to this form of cyme. But thesq termsare not strictly correct, for hero there is no dichotomousbranching, although, when the terminal flower / of thegenerating axis has withered, an apparent dichotomy occurs;but the lateral axes on the several shoots are producedmonopodially, and therefore the term is apt to lead to con-fusion regarding the development of the shoots. The namedichasium has, therefore, been substituted for the old the natural order Caryophyllaceaa (Pink family) thedichasial cymosc form of inflorescence is very general. Insome members of the tribe, as Dianthus barbatus, , &c., in which the peduncles are short,and the flowe
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