The leaves are opposite, and furnished with stipules The flowers form a corymb in the Scarlet Verbena, and a spike in some of the other kinds, which elongates gradually as the flowers expand.
In the genus Hydrangea the flowers are disposed in corymbs, and they have five petals, ten stamens, and from two to five styles; but in the outer flowers of the corymb the stamens and pistil are often wanting.
Cardamine pratensis: "On the lower part of the corymb were several seed vessels on pedicels changed from their usual linear to an ovate elliptical figure, so as to resemble a silicula.
In the apple I have observed leafy shoots bearing terminal tufts of leaves where the flower should have been, so that what, under ordinary circumstances would be a corymb of flowers, is here represented by a series of tufts of leaves.
The corymb and the umbel being more or less level-topped, bringing the flowers into a horizontal plane or a convex form, the ascending order of development appears as Centripetal.
That is, a raceme becomes a corymb by lengthening the lower pedicels while the uppermost remain shorter.
By extreme shortening of the axis the corymb may be converted into 207.
The axis of a corymb is short in proportion to the lower pedicels.
The shortening of these pedicels, so as to render the flowers sessile or nearly so, converts a raceme into a Spike, and a corymb or an umbel into a Head.
A compound corymb is a corymb some branches of which branch again in the same way, as in Mountain Ash.
It grows from two to four feet high, and bears a corymb of many yellow heads, from July to September.
Heads in a compound corymb terminating the simple stem, not at all racemose; leaves mostly with a strong midrib.
The smaller corymbs are arched or convex, causing the cluster or compound corymb to present an uneven surface; the small flowers are of rich old gold colour, and have the appearance of knotted gold cord; they are very rigid, almost hard.
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