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.
It is, as it were, a raceme of which some of the pedicels have branched so as to bear a few flowers on pedicels of their own, while others remain simple.
That is, a raceme becomes a corymb by lengthening the lower pedicels while the uppermost remain shorter.
The lowest blossoms of a raceme are of course the oldest, and therefore open first, and the order of blossoming is ascending from the bottom to the top.
The floriferous character of the plant may be inferred from the fact that, after the raceme fades, there pushes from the axil a peduncle, which, in a short time, produces many other racemes.
The raceme seldom has more than two or three flowers fully open at one time, when they are of a shaded pink colour, and nearly an inch in length; the leaves are 1in.
In the same manner the shortening of the inflorescence from racemeto spike or umbel, and thence to the capitulum or dense flower-head of the composite plants is brought about.
Take first the shortening of the raceme into the umbel and the capitulum, said to be caused by arrest of vegetative growth, due to the antagonism of reproduction.
Flowers - White, small, feathery, borne in a close raceme at the top of a scape 6 to 12 in.
Gray) lies prostrate along the ground, the matted, usually branched stems sending up at regular intervals a racemeof rose-purple flowers in July and August from the axil of the trefoliate leaf.
On a subsequent occasion many other flowers were fertilised with their own pollen, and all fell off dead in a few days; whilst some flowers on the same raceme which had been left simply unfertilised adhered and long remained fresh.
Spikelets sessile and jointed on the very short densely crowded branchlets of a tall, narrow racemelike panicle, deciduous, acute, much compressed, imbricate and secund 7.
The inflorescence is a spike-like raceme consisting of involucellate clusters of shortly pedicellate spikelets, involucels consist of unequal, simple or branched bristles.
The inflorescence is a solitary cylindricraceme of involucels, 2 to 4 inches long, enclosed in the uppermost leaf-sheath; the rachis is flexuous, angular and smooth.
Inflorescence is either a raceme of spikes or, a lax or contracted panicle.
Raceme solitary; the first glume of the sessile spikelet deeply grooved at the back along the middle line.
Each raceme has an axis, called the =rachis=, which bears unilaterally two rows of bud-like bodies.
The name =rachis= is given to the axis of the spike, raceme and panicle, whether the axis is the main one or of the branch.
A portion of the raceme showing the joints, sessile and pedicelled spikelets; 2, 3, 4 and 6.
A part of the racemeshowing sessile spikelets with reduced pedicelled spikelets; 2.
The inflorescence is either a spike-like raceme or a spiciform panicle.
Short spikes may fall from the culm as a whole; or the axis of a spike or raceme is jointed so that one spikelet falls with each joint as in many Andropogoneae and Hordeae.
Spikelets crowded in two close rows, forming a one-sided spike or raceme with a continuous (not jointed) rachis.
Four large compound leaves, each consisting of five or seven leaflets, and a raceme of sixty-eight flowers, have been unfolded on dissecting one of these buds, before the leaves unfold in spring.
The common Lilac (Syringa vulgaris) has its flowers disposed in a kind of panicledraceme called a thyrsus.
From a small tuberous root it sends up to a height of one to two feet a single crimson-tinted stem, which terminates in a long raceme of scarlet flowers, large for the genus and long enduring.
Each branch and branchlet is terminated by a lengthening raceme of flowers.
Heads not showy, in a loose panicle or raceme --240b.
Flowers sessile or nearly so, forming a spike or spike-like raceme --21.
Flowers solitary or in clusters, but never in a twisted raceme --5.
Raceme single or two; leaves broadly ovate-lanceolate, about 3 times as long as wide =Smartweed, Polygonum muhlenbergii.
Raceme with a bract at the base of each flower (flowers white or yellowish) --17.
In some species of Muscari and Bellevalia the uppermost flowers of the raceme show more or less complete suppression of almost all the part of which the flower normally consists.
In the monstrous fruit the axis is prolonged, and forms a kind of raceme or catkin, surrounded at the base by numerous bracts, as in many Amentaceæ.
In addition to the well-known cases of certain species of Bellevalia and Muscari, wherein the uppermost flowers of the raceme are more or less atrophied (see p.
In this specimen a raceme of small flowers was included within the enlarged pericarp of a species of Anchusa.
Height, 3 feet; flowers, large, blue, borne in a racemewith long flower stems.
Rich scarlet flowers nodding in a racemeor panicle; 1-1/2 to 2 ft.
Small, low herbs, with solid bulbs, producing 2 root-leaves and a low scape, which bears a raceme of few purplish or greenish flowers.
Glabrous; pedicels solitary, in a short raceme or head; seeds not appendaged.
Stems woody, either very short or rising into thick and columnar palm-like trunks, bearing persistent rigid linear or sword-shaped leaves, and an often ample compound panicle or branched raceme of showy flowers.
Slender perennials, mostly tufted, with short or creeping rhizomes, and simple stems leafy only at the base, bearing small flowers in a close raceme or spike.
Flowers bracteate in a loose raceme upon a leafy stem.
Leaves all crowded at the summit of sterile stems; leaflets broadly ovate, bluntish, whitish beneath; raceme elongated on an ascending mostly leafless stalk or scape from the root, 2 deg.
A tall plant with large oblong entire leaves and a long raceme of yellowish, rayless heads.
A small plant two or three inches high, with several pairs of small, ovate, pubescent leaves, and a terminal raceme of small blue flowers.
Pyrola elliptica) with a cluster of radical leaves and a raceme of greenish white flowers.
They have a dense tuft of hard, narrowly linear radical leaves, and a long raceme of small whitish flowers.
The central axis of a spike or raceme of flowers or of a compound leaf.
Nartheeium ossifragum) with linear equitant leaves, and a raceme of small white flowers; -- called also bog asphodel.
Pyrola elliptica) with a cluster of radical leaves and a raceme of greenish white flowers.
The flowers are in clusters varying in shape, sometimes growing in a long, loose raceme and sometimes in a closer, pointed cluster.
The double variety is very beautiful when in perfection, but our experience is that it never flowers freely, and the raceme is often poor.
It has rosy-crimson flowers produced in a flatter raceme than that of E.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "raceme" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: ament; blossom; cone; head; spike
