. Botany all the year round; a practical text-book for schools. Botany. BUDS AND BRANCHES minate. The simplest kind of each is the solitary, where a single flower either terminates the main axis, as the daffodil, trillium, magnolia, etc., or springs singly from the axils, as in the running peri- winkle, moneywort, and cotton. 349. â Solitary axillary inflo- rescence of moneywort {after Gray). 266. Indeterminate Inflorescence is always axillary, since the pro- duction of a terminal flower would stop further growth in that direction and thus terminate the development of the axis. We have only to
. Botany all the year round; a practical text-book for schools. Botany. BUDS AND BRANCHES minate. The simplest kind of each is the solitary, where a single flower either terminates the main axis, as the daffodil, trillium, magnolia, etc., or springs singly from the axils, as in the running peri- winkle, moneywort, and cotton. 349. â Solitary axillary inflo- rescence of moneywort {after Gray). 266. Indeterminate Inflorescence is always axillary, since the pro- duction of a terminal flower would stop further growth in that direction and thus terminate the development of the axis. We have only to imagine the internodes of such a stem or branch as that represented in Figure 349 very much shortened, the leaves reduced to bracts or wanting altogether, and flowers or flower buds at every node, to have the 267. Raceme, the typical flower cluster of the indefinite sort. In such an arrangement the oldest flowers are, necessarily, at the lower nodes, new ones appearing only as the axis length- ens and produces new internodes. This will be made clear by examining a flowering stalk of hyacinth, cherry laurel {Primus caroliniana), shepherd's purse, or any common weeds of the mustard family that are generally to be found in .abundance everywhere. It will be seen that the lower buds have already fruited in the last named, and perhaps the pods have dehisced and shed their seed before the upper ones have even begun to unfold. Notice the little scale or bract usually 35o. - Raceme of miik â ' vetch {Astragalus). found at the base of the pedicel in flower clusters of this sort (in the shepherd's purse it is wanting). This is a reduced leaf, and the fact that the flower stalk springs from the axil, shows 'it to be of the essential nature of a 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 Andrews, Eliza F
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