Also the curious distortions of nettle stems swollen and curved by AEcidium, of maize stems and leaves attacked by Ustilago, and of the inflorescences of Capsella by Cystopus, etc.
Caeoma on Pines, Aecidium on Nettles, also Puccinia on petioles of Mallow, Cystopus on inflorescences of Capsella, etc.
The adnation of the peduncles of the inflorescences to the stem is typical in Solanum and accidental in many other cases.
Their white spikes of drooping tulip-like flowers are almost the only inflorescences to be seen outside gardens at this season of the year.
The air is heavily scented with the inconspicuous inflorescences of the mangos (Mangifera indica).
It is clear that we have to distinguish between the entire branched total Inflorescence, and the Spikelets or partialinflorescences of which it is composed.
There is also another aspect of these inflorescences which is not without interest as showing how diagnostic characters may be obtained from purely external features, easily observed in the field.
The most obviously awned species of Festuca have more or less setaceous leaves and contracted inflorescences (see p.
Compound definite inflorescences are by no means common, but in Streptocarpus polyanthus and in several calceolarias we probably have examples.
According to the mode and degree of development of the lateral shoots and also of the bracts, various forms of both inflorescences result.
As already stated the inflorescences appear at the free ends of branches.
In an annual all the stems and branches usually end in inflorescences and they will all be of the same year.
The inflorescences are spike-like racemes, consisting of involucellate clusters of shortly pedicelled spikelets jointed on a simple rachis.
The inflorescences are terminal or axillary spiciform racemes.
If, on the other hand, both young leafy branches and old branches ending in inflorescences are found mixed, it must be a perennial grass.
Sooner or later all the branches of a grass-plant terminate in inflorescences which usually stand far above the foliage leaves.
The inflorescences in several species of Andropogon consist of racemes so much modified as to appear exactly like a spike.
But in some species of grasses such as Pennisetum Alopecuros and Setaria glauca, the paniculate inflorescences become so contracted that the pedicels and the short branches are hidden and the inflorescence appears to be a spike.
Inflorescences consist of spiciform racemes with spathaceous bracts; rachis is jointed.
This grass is an annual with slender leafy stems, branching at the base, prostrate at first and then geniculately ascending, terminating in inflorescences and varying in length from 3 to 15 inches.
Such inflorescences as these are called =spiciform panicles=.
Labrusca, average two inflorescences to a cane, but V.
The number of inflorescences borne by species is an important character in some cases.
Flowers produced upon indefinite inflorescences are liable to be affected with either form of prolification more frequently than those borne upon definite inflorescences.
On the other hand, the development of inflorescences is entirely suppressed if, at a suitable moment before the actual foundations have been laid, water and mineral salts are supplied to the roots.
The transformation of the inflorescences to foliage-shoots formed the starting-point; it occurred only under narrowly defined conditions, namely on cultivation as a cutting in moist air and on removal of all other leaf-buds.
The Hop Tree or Shrubby Trefoil (page 13), flowers from May to July and produces flat-headed inflorescences of a greenish yellow colour, succeeded in autumn by bunches of flat fruits of a greenish colour.
A native of the Northern Hemisphere, this cinquefoil produces flat-headed inflorescences of yellow flowers throughout the summer months.
In the conifers proper the female reproductive organs have the form of cones, which may be styled flowers or inflorescences according to different interpretations of their morphology.
The male and female inflorescences have the form of simple or paniculate spikes.
Numerous circular pits occur on the concentric ridges of the depressed and wrinkled crown, marking the position of former inflorescences borne in the leaf-axil at different stages in the growth of the plant.
A closely related character is that of the number of inflorescences borne by a species.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inflorescences" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
