If such branches are leafy shoots, at length terminated by single blossoms, the inflorescence still consists of solitary flowers at the summit of stem and branches.
Lilac and Horse-chestnut afford common examples of mixed inflorescence of this sort.
When the bracts are also wanting in such cases, as in many Borragineous plants, the true nature of the inflorescence is very much disguised.
Spikelet, a small or a secondary spike; the inflorescence of Grasses.
Spike, an inflorescence like a raceme, only the flowers are sessile, 74.
The sap extracted from the inner part of the inflorescence yields a much-prized alcoholic drink.
Cauliflower, which is the chief representative of class 4, consists of the inflorescence of the plant modified so as to form a compact succulent white mass or head.
Broccoli is merely a variety of cauliflower, differing from the other in the form and colour of its inflorescence and its hardiness.
In Botany it is agreed to call any inflorescence consisting of a stalk or axis on which the flowers are arranged without stalks--i.
Plant (reduced) showing creeping and stoloniferous habit, and peculiarinflorescence of digitate spikes.
Inflorescence a distinctly branched panicle, more or less loose and spreading.
In some cases the stalks from the main axis bear only one spikelet each and the type of inflorescence is that of a raceme; usually, however, one or more of the lowermost stalks branch and disclose the panicle.
Certain superficial resemblances in the habit orinflorescence in Festuca Myurus and rare forms like Spartina, may occasionally cause hesitation until the spikelets are examined.
Inflorescence compact and irregular; a spike of tufts (spike-like panicle).
Inflorescence usually compound, of small axillary spiked or racemed or umbel-like clusters or cymes, or when reduced to a single flower the peduncle mostly 2-bracteate.
Spikelets solitary or clustered, or in a compound umbel, the stem often leafy at base and inflorescence involucrate.
A simple inflorescence of pedicelled flowers upon a common more or less elongated axis.
One of the spikes from the digitate inflorescence of E.
Slightly pubescent or glabrous; inflorescence loose, on peduncles much longer than the leaves =Bush Clover, Lespedeza violacea.
Heads crowded at or near the ends of the branches at about the same distance from the base of the panicle, forming a rounded or flat-topped inflorescence --140.
Leaves at base of umbel broad, resembling those of the inflorescence =Spurge, Euphorbia lucida.
Plant glandular, especially on the pedicels and branches of the inflorescence =Aster, Aster macrophyllus.
Inflorescence of several-flowered clusters terminating the stem and in the upper axils =Toad-flax, Comandra umbellata.
The axillary inflorescence comes in long, slender cymes, and the five-petaled flowers are yellow.
A cymose inflorescence is an inflorescence where the primary floral axis before terminating in a flower gives off one or more lateral unifloral axes which repeat the process--the development being only limited by the vigour of the plant.
A series of empty coloured bracts terminates the inflorescence of Salvia Horminum.
The basal portion of the consecutive axes may become much thickened and arranged more or less in a straight line, and thus collectively form an apparent or false axis or sympodium, and the inflorescence thus simulates a raceme.
The second kind of inflorescenceis determinate, definite or terminal.
The inflorescence in the family Boraginaceae are usually regarded as true scorpioid cymes.
The flowers produced in this inflorescenceare thus terminal.
Forms of inflorescence occur, in which both the definite and indefinite types are represented--mixed inflorescences.
When the axes become very much shortened, the arrangement is more complicated in appearance, and the nature of the inflorescence can only be recognized by the order of opening of the flowers.
Thus the flowers are arranged in groups, and frequently very complicated forms of inflorescence result.
Few objects have more exquisite and delicate beauty than thisinflorescence when lighted up by the low afternoon sun.
For a long time he had exulted in this inflorescence of his life, as it were, and was more than content.
During this period, also, many of the forest trees emulate the wild flowers at their feet until their inflorescence culminates in the white cord-like fringe that foretells the spiny chestnut burrs.
Various methods of scattering the grain have been adopted, in which parts of the spikelet or inflorescence are concerned.
Bracts of a more general character subtending branches of theinflorescence are singularly rare in Gramineae, in marked contrast with Cyperaceae, where they are so conspicuous.
Every variety of racemose and paniculate inflorescence obtains, and the number of spikelets composing those of the large kinds is often immense.
It is closed except at the apex, and contains the female spikelet, the stalks of the male inflorescence and the long styles emerging through the small apical orifice.
Perhaps the finest example ofinflorescence in the world is seen in the Victoria Regia, the magnificent water-lily discovered by Schömberg in 1837.
The inflorescence always springs from the top of the trunk, and the male flowers are generally yellowish.
The inflorescence corresponds almost exactly to the ornament, but the multipartite leaf has also had a particular influence upon its development and upon that of several collateral forms which I cannot now discuss.
Taking them in a general way, they all show a leaf-form inclosing an inflorescence in the form of an ear or thistle; or at other times a fruit or a fruit-form.
Diagram of the inflorescence of Euphorbia, illustrating the dichasial cymose arrangement of the ultimate branches.
It differs from the latter species in the inflorescence and calyx.
With many plants, the flowers towards the outside of the inflorescence are much larger and more conspicuous than the central ones.
In other families each flower of such an inflorescence would be subtended by a bract, according to the [636] general rule that in the higher plants side branches are situated in the arils of leaves.
Bracts in the inflorescence of crucifers are ordinarily wanting, but may be seen in some genera, Erucastrum pollichii being perhaps the [223] most widely known instance, although other cases might easily be cited.
Each flower-stalk of their long racemes is situated in the aril of such a bract, and the peculiarity is quite a natural one, corresponding exactly to what is seen in the inflorescence of other families.
Proliferation of the inflorescence is very common and changes in the position of staminate and pistillate flowers are not rare.
The leaflets are reduced in numbers and greatly modified, and the flowers in the inflorescence are reduced to two or three.
The specimens on which the experiments were made were three modified inflorescence cuttings, the parent-plants of which certainly exhibited no striking abnormalities.
During the cultivation of an artificially modified inflorescence I obtained a race showing modifications in different directions, among which twisting was especially conspicuous.
If, during the week when the inflorescence has just been laid down and is growing very slowly, the supply of water and salts is increased, the internal conditions of the cells are essentially changed.
The flowers are of a greenish-yellow colour, and when in bud are tinged with pink, which tends to give the whole inflorescence a peculiarly pleasing tone.
The flowers are white or lilac, the inflorescence forming a remarkable-looking spike, half the length of the stem.
It is most attractive when in flower in the end of summer, the inflorescence consisting of a dense panicle of purplish awned flowers.
The inflorescenceis a simple raceme of white flowers slightly tinged with yellow.
The long stems are clothed with large and handsome pinnate leaves, and the yellowish-green inflorescence appears towards the end of summer.
Where it thrives the effect of its peculiar inflorescence is very fine and distinct.
Its inflorescencealso is different, the flowers being of a yellowish red, and growing in short clusters.
The plants grow from a bulb or short rhizome; the inflorescence is an apparent umbel formed of several shortened monochasial cymes and subtended by a pair of large bracts.
Anthericum and Chlorophytum, herbs with radical often grass-like leaves and scapes bearing a more or less branched inflorescence of small generally white flowers, are widely spread in the tropics.
The inflorescence was by this means protected from the wind by being kept just below the general level of the vegetation.
Inflorescence appearing with or before the leaves; flowers with entire bracts and one or two small glands; disks wanting; stamens few.
An inflorescence in which the flower stems spring from the same point like the rays of an umbrella.
Consequently both its inflorescence and pale green, glossy foliage are covered with a sort of whitish cotton, absorbent when young, to prevent the pores from clogging with vapors arising from its damp retreats.
Small, oblong, entire leaves are seated on these elongated sprays, while below the inflorescence the large leaves taper to a sharp point, and are coarsely and sharply toothed.
Within, tiny pistillate florets are seated around the base, while on the staminate plants the inflorescence extends higher.
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