Introduction to structural and systematic botany, and vegetable physiology, : being a 5th and revedof the Botanical text-book, illustrated with over thirteen hundred woodcuts . 395. The Fig presents a case of very singular inflorescence FIG. 324. Vertical section of a head of flowers of a Coreopsis. FIG. 325. A slice of Fig. 324, more enlarged, with one tubular perfect flower (a) left stand-ing on the receptacle, and subtended by its bract or chaff (b); also one ligulate and neutral ray-flower (c), and part of another: d, section of bracts or leaves of the involucre. 216 THE INFLORESCENCE. (Fi
Introduction to structural and systematic botany, and vegetable physiology, : being a 5th and revedof the Botanical text-book, illustrated with over thirteen hundred woodcuts . 395. The Fig presents a case of very singular inflorescence FIG. 324. Vertical section of a head of flowers of a Coreopsis. FIG. 325. A slice of Fig. 324, more enlarged, with one tubular perfect flower (a) left stand-ing on the receptacle, and subtended by its bract or chaff (b); also one ligulate and neutral ray-flower (c), and part of another: d, section of bracts or leaves of the involucre. 216 THE INFLORESCENCE. (Fig. 590-592), where the flowers apparently occupy the insideinstead of the outside of the axis, being enclosed within the fleshyreceptacle, which is hollow and nearly closed at the top. So thatwhile a Sunflower, or the like, is an inflorescence imitating a blos-som, a fig is an inflorescence imitating a fruit. Indeed, it is muchlike a mulberry (Fig. 593) or a pine-apple, turned inside out. 396. The foregoing are all forms of simple inflorescence; theramification not passing beyond the first step; the lateral buds beingat once terminated by a single flower. But the latera
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