. Beginners' botany. Botany. FLOWER-CLUSTERS 159 the top is convex or flat, it is a corymb (Fig. 217). The outermost flowers open first. Centripetal flower-clusters are sometimes said to be corymbose in mode. When the branches of an indeterminate cluster arise from a common point, like the frame of an umbrella, the cluster is an umbel (Fig. 218). Typical umbels occur in carrot, parsnip, caraway and other plants of the parsley family: the family is known as the Umbelliferse, or umbel-bearing. Fig. 218. — Remains of a Last Year's Umbel of Wild Carrot. family. In the carrot and many other Umbelli
. Beginners' botany. Botany. FLOWER-CLUSTERS 159 the top is convex or flat, it is a corymb (Fig. 217). The outermost flowers open first. Centripetal flower-clusters are sometimes said to be corymbose in mode. When the branches of an indeterminate cluster arise from a common point, like the frame of an umbrella, the cluster is an umbel (Fig. 218). Typical umbels occur in carrot, parsnip, caraway and other plants of the parsley family: the family is known as the Umbelliferse, or umbel-bearing. Fig. 218. — Remains of a Last Year's Umbel of Wild Carrot. family. In the carrot and many other Umbelliferae, there are small or secondary umbels, called umbellets, at the end of each of the main branches. (In the center of the wild carrot umbel one often finds a single, blackish, often aborted flower, comprising a i-flowered umbellet.) Centrifugal or Determinate Clusters. — When the ter- minal or central flower opens first, the cluster is said to be centrifugal. The growth of the shoot or cluster is deter- minate, since the length is definitely determined or stopped by the terminal flower. Fig. 219 shows a determinate or centrifugal mode of flower 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 Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954. New York, The Macmillan company
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