. The principles of botany, as exemplified in the phanerogamia. Botany; Botany; Phanerogams; 1854. 122 COMPOUND OBGANS OF PLANTS. indeterminate manner, but are arrested in their development by the terminal flowers. The most common and regular cases of determinate inflo- rescence occur in opposite-leaved plants. In these plants the inflorescence is composed of a superposed series of bifurcations of the primary axis, in the centre of each of which a terminal flower is situated. This mode of inflorescence, which is termed a cyme, has been already explained, and may be studied to advantage in the
. The principles of botany, as exemplified in the phanerogamia. Botany; Botany; Phanerogams; 1854. 122 COMPOUND OBGANS OF PLANTS. indeterminate manner, but are arrested in their development by the terminal flowers. The most common and regular cases of determinate inflo- rescence occur in opposite-leaved plants. In these plants the inflorescence is composed of a superposed series of bifurcations of the primary axis, in the centre of each of which a terminal flower is situated. This mode of inflorescence, which is termed a cyme, has been already explained, and may be studied to advantage in the chickweeds, (Cerastium and Stellaria,) in which it is recognizable at once by the solitary flower, destitute of bracteoles, in each fork of the branches. Fig. 28. Fig, 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 Coultas, Harland, d. 1877. Philadelphia : King & Baird
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