. Botany, an elementary text for schools. Botany. IIG FLOWEK - BRANCHES the flowers are borne on short stems and open from below (that is, from the older part of the shoot) npwards. The raceme may be terminal to the main branch, as in Fig. 172, or it may be lateral to it, as in Fig. 173. Racemes often bear the flowers on one side of the stem, or in a single row. 238. When a corymbose flower- is long and dense and the flowers are sessile or nearly so, it is called a spike (Figs. 174, 175). Common examples of spikes are plantain, mignonette, mullein. 239. A very short and dense spike is a head.
. Botany, an elementary text for schools. Botany. IIG FLOWEK - BRANCHES the flowers are borne on short stems and open from below (that is, from the older part of the shoot) npwards. The raceme may be terminal to the main branch, as in Fig. 172, or it may be lateral to it, as in Fig. 173. Racemes often bear the flowers on one side of the stem, or in a single row. 238. When a corymbose flower- is long and dense and the flowers are sessile or nearly so, it is called a spike (Figs. 174, 175). Common examples of spikes are plantain, mignonette, mullein. 239. A very short and dense spike is a head. Clover (Fig. 17G) is a good exam- ple. The sunflower and re- lated plants bear many small flowers in a very dense head. This special kind of head of the sunflower, thistle, and aster tribes has been called an anthodiioti, but this word is little used. Note that in the sunflower. Terminal racemes of 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 Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954. New York Macmillan
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