An illustrated guide to the flowering plants of the middle Atlantic and New England states (excepting the grasses and sedges) the descriptive text written in familiar language . into two or more A Compound Ruccinc or Panicle IV. Flowers on flower stems branching from nearly the same point and reaching about the same level . A Simple Corymb V. Flowers borne on branched divisions of a corymb A Compound Corymb VI. and VII. Flowers on somewhat long flower stems all fromthe same point and radiating like the rods of an mnbrellato a common level or rounded (Figs. VI and VII) An Umbel VIII. The flower
An illustrated guide to the flowering plants of the middle Atlantic and New England states (excepting the grasses and sedges) the descriptive text written in familiar language . into two or more A Compound Ruccinc or Panicle IV. Flowers on flower stems branching from nearly the same point and reaching about the same level . A Simple Corymb V. Flowers borne on branched divisions of a corymb A Compound Corymb VI. and VII. Flowers on somewhat long flower stems all fromthe same point and radiating like the rods of an mnbrellato a common level or rounded (Figs. VI and VII) An Umbel VIII. The flower stems of an umbel branched to form secondary umbels .1 Compound Umbel IX. A si)iko more or less snrrounded on at least one side by a spatho A Spadix X. The flowers arranged more or less compactly on a Ieceptacle and surrounded by bracts A Head XI, Inflorescence on a succession of new , the primary, secondary, etc., axes each terminated by a flower . A Cyme XII. A cyme in which the inflorescence coils upon itself , 1 Storpoid Cyme XIII. Arrangement similar to a panicle, but the branches one-sided A Sccund Panicle OUTLINE OF STRUCTURAL BOTANYAbkangement of Flowers 37. THE FRUIT. As the ovules, under the fertilizing influence of the pollenadvance toward maturity, they and the immediate envelopes whichenclose them become modified and are known as the fruit. While in fact the maturing seed with its immediate protectingmembranes is the fruit, popularly the fleshy or pulpy modificationof some accessory part is regarded as the fruit. Thus, in thestrawberry the little hard shining bodies are the real fruit while 38 OUTLINE OF STRUCTURAL BOTANY the delicious pulpy substance which gives value for us to the berry-is a modification of the floral receptacle, and the rich substanceof the apple is another example of the excessive growth of thereceptacle on which tlie seeds first rested and then were envelopedby it. The forms which the fruit may take during the process ofripening are impo
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