. Cyclopedia of practical floriculture. Floriculture; Flower language. r CULTIVATION AND ANALISIS OF PLANTS. =S5 1. ily IFFERENCES in the mode of flowering or in the crcneral arrange- ?nt of the blossoms along the stem or branches, mark the various '•^J" " forms of inflorescence. When the flower that terminates the axis .'l^r opens first, and the others in the order of their nearness to this one, the iflorescence is called determinate, definite, or centrifugal, as in the ^Wv^ '" Hydrangea. When this order is reversed, and the first flower to bloom is the one farthest from the te
. Cyclopedia of practical floriculture. Floriculture; Flower language. r CULTIVATION AND ANALISIS OF PLANTS. =S5 1. ily IFFERENCES in the mode of flowering or in the crcneral arrange- ?nt of the blossoms along the stem or branches, mark the various '•^J" " forms of inflorescence. When the flower that terminates the axis .'l^r opens first, and the others in the order of their nearness to this one, the iflorescence is called determinate, definite, or centrifugal, as in the ^Wv^ '" Hydrangea. When this order is reversed, and the first flower to bloom is the one farthest from the terminal one, this being the very last, the inflo- rescence is said to be indeterminate, indefinite, ox centripetal, as in the Gladiolus. In a few genera the inflorescence partakes of both peculiarities, and is called mixed, as in the Teasel, and also the Llati'is, familiarly designated Blazing Star. Flowers, like buds, are known as terminal when they appear at the end of the stem, as in the Parnassia (S); iv/iorled, when grouped around the stem in a circle, as in the Mint; and axillary, when at the axils, as in the Pentstemon (45). The flowerstalk, when common to the whole cluster, is called a fed uncle, the indi- vidual stalk of each separate flower being a pedicel, as in the Cardamine (47). When the peduncle bears a single flower, the inflorescence is called simple, as in the Morning Glory (56). When the peduncle with its flower springs directly from the root of the plant, the inflorescence is called a scape, as in the English Primrose (84); and when it has several flowers placed one above another and sessile (that is, without pedicels), it is called a spike, as in the Veronica spicata (85), or spadix, which is a fleshy variety of the spike, as in the vSpiranthus; raceme, where each flower of a cluster has its own pedicel arranged along a lengthened axis, as in the Canadian Milk-Vetch (86); panicle, or branched cluster, where each pedicel (itself a branch of the peduncle) ag
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