. 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. FLOWERS : THE Hi PARTS. 63 its branches. The plan of a C3'me is ilkistrated in tlie following]: fij^ares. Fi'^. 150, to begin with, is a stem terminated by a flower, which phiinly 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. FLOWERS : THE Hi PARTS. 63 its branches. The plan of a C3'me is ilkistrated in tlie following]: fij^ares. Fi'^. 150, to begin with, is a stem terminated by a flower, which phiinly 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 ^^'a7, each branch endinsr 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; whfle in the corymb tlie blossoming begins wnth the outermost flowers and proceeds regu larly towards the 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 \qyj much crowded cyme, with very short footstalks to tlie flowers, or none at all, as the flower-cluster 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 Gray, Asa, 1810-1888. New York : Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman & Co
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