. A general system of botany, descriptive and analytical. In two parts. Part I. Outlines of organography, anatomy, and physiology. Part II. Descriptions and illustrations of the orders. By Emm. Le Maout [and] J. Decaisne. With 5500 figures by L. Steinheil and A. Riocreux. Translated from the original by Mrs. Hooker. The orders arranged after the method followed in the universities and schools of Great Britain, its colonies, America, and India; with additions, an appendix on the natural method, and a synopsis of the orders, by Hooker. Botany. INFLORESCENCE. 33 the wiiole, the simplest expl
. A general system of botany, descriptive and analytical. In two parts. Part I. Outlines of organography, anatomy, and physiology. Part II. Descriptions and illustrations of the orders. By Emm. Le Maout [and] J. Decaisne. With 5500 figures by L. Steinheil and A. Riocreux. Translated from the original by Mrs. Hooker. The orders arranged after the method followed in the universities and schools of Great Britain, its colonies, America, and India; with additions, an appendix on the natural method, and a synopsis of the orders, by Hooker. Botany. INFLORESCENCE. 33 the wiiole, the simplest explanation of the tendril of the Melon is, that, unlike that of the Pea and other LeguminosEe, it represents a leaf, reduced to one or more of its nerves: thus, when simple, it represents the petiole and mid-rib; -when branched, it represents the principal nerves of the leaf, which are themselves palmately divided. In the Vine (fig. 130) the tendril is leaf-opposed, and formed of a branching peduncle (v, v), of which the pedicels are suppressed, but which sometimes bears imperfect flowers. INFLORESCENCE. This terra (inforescentia) is used in two senses, signifying both the arrange- ment of the flowers upon a plant, and a collection of flowers not separated by leaves properly so called; the latter being the more special meaning of the term. The organs of inflorescence are, (1) the supports of the flowers, pedimcle,pedicel,receptacle; (2) the bracts {bractece), or altered leaves, from the axils of which the floral axes spring, and which are altered in colour and form, as they ap- proach the flower; these are some- times absent {Stock and other Cruciferw). The peduncle [pedunculus) is a branch directly terminated by a flower; and its extremity forms the receptacle [receptaculum). This name is also given to a more or less branched flowering axis, differing in appearance from the rest of the of which the ultimate divisions are called pedicels. Please note that these images are extracte
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