. Botany for young people and common schools. How plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany. With a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated. Botany; Botany. FLOWERS : THEIR PARTS. 63 its branches. The plan of a cyme is illustrated in the following figures. Fig. 150, to beghi with, is a stem terminated by a flower, which plainly comes from a terminal bud or is a terminal flower. Fig. 151 is the same, which has started a branch from the axil of each of the uppermost leaves ; each of these ends in a flower-bud. Fig. 152 is the same
. Botany for young people and common schools. How plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany. With a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated. Botany; Botany. FLOWERS : THEIR PARTS. 63 its branches. The plan of a cyme is illustrated in the following figures. Fig. 150, to beghi with, is a stem terminated by a flower, which plainly comes from a terminal bud or is a terminal flower. Fig. 151 is the same, which has started a branch from the axil of each of the uppermost leaves ; each of these ends in a flower-bud. Fig. 152 is the same, with the side branches again branched in the same way, each branch ending in a flower-bud. This makes a cluster looking like a corymb, as shown in Fig. 143 ; but observe that here in the cyme the middle flower, a, which ends the main stem, blossoms first; next, those flowers marked h; then those marked c, and so on, the centre one of each set being the earliest; while in the corymb the blossoming begins with the outermost flowers and proceeds regu larly towards tlie centre. The Elder, the Cornel, and the Hydrangea (Fig. 169) have their blossoms in cymes many times branched in this way; that is, they have compound cymes. 190. A Fascicle is only a close or very much crowded cyme, with very short footstalks to the flowers, or none at all, as the flower-cluster of 151 Plan of the 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 Gray, Asa, 1810-1888. New York, Ivison & Phinney
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