. A Manual of botany : being an introduction to the study of the structure, physiology, and classification of plants . Botany. Fig. 264. Fig. 266. Indefinite Infloeescence.—The simplest form of this inflores- cence is when single flowers are produced in the axUs of the ordinary Fig. 254. Plant of Kanunculus bulbosus, showing determinate inflorescence. a\ Primary floral axis dilated at its base, so as to form a sort of bulb, 6, whence the roots and radical leaves proceed. /', Solitary flower, terminating the primary axis. About the middle of the axis a leaf is developed which gives origin to a
. A Manual of botany : being an introduction to the study of the structure, physiology, and classification of plants . Botany. Fig. 264. Fig. 266. Indefinite Infloeescence.—The simplest form of this inflores- cence is when single flowers are produced in the axUs of the ordinary Fig. 254. Plant of Kanunculus bulbosus, showing determinate inflorescence. a\ Primary floral axis dilated at its base, so as to form a sort of bulb, 6, whence the roots and radical leaves proceed. /', Solitary flower, terminating the primary axis. About the middle of the axis a leaf is developed which gives origin to a secondary axis, a", ending in a solitary flower, /", which is not so advanced as /'. Oh the secondary axis a leaf is formed, from the axil of which a tertiary axis, a'", proceeds, ending in a flower, /'", which is still in bud. On this axis another floral leaf and bud is in the progress of formation. Fig. 255. Branching raceme or so-called panicle of Yucca gloriosa. a', Primary axis or rachis. a", Secondary axes or smaller peduncles, a'". Tertiary axes or pedicels bearing flowers, hbhh, Bracts and bractlets, in the axil of which the axes are produced. The inflorescence is indeterminate and consists of a series of racemes on a common axis, a'. The expansion of the whole in- florescence is centripetal, and such is also the case with each of the racemes forming it, the flowers at the base of the successive axes opening 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 Balfour, John Hutton, 1808-1884. Edinburgh : A. and C. Black
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