Besides them a single plant was seen to bear only peloric flowers; it produced racemes on several stems and their branches.
The racemes or flower-spikes are densely flowered as in the red species, but the flowers themselves are of a yellow tinge, with only a flesh-red hue on the outer side of the calyx.
Some striped racemes bear a few red flowers, which ordinarily are inserted on one side of the spike only.
It is prized because of its brilliant red racemes of flowers which blossom early in the spring, before the appearance of the leaves.
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.
Union of the neighboring fruits and flowers on flower-heads, of the rays of the umbellifers or of the successive flowers of the racemes of cabbages and allied genera, seem to be rare.
In the alternative case however, it [539] becomes densely branched, bearing flowers on quite a number of racemes and yielding a full harvest of seeds.
Lemoine, however, conceived the desirability of a combination of the doubling with the bright colors and large flower-racemes of other lilacs, and performed a series of crosses.
The flowers and racemes are nearly as large as those of the parent-form, the fruits only a little thinner and containing a smaller quantity of seed.
Neither the pure red type, nor the nearly yellow racemes are the object of the culture, as both of them may be had pure from their, own separate varieties.
We inhale with delight the fragrance that makes notable the time when the common locust sends forth its white racemesof loveliness.
Now this plant produces several flowers on a raceme, and many racemes during a season.
In an allied genus, Gongora, Mr. Scott has seen twenty capsules produced on a single raceme; ten such racemes on the Acropera would yield above seventy-four millions of seed.
These were produced after almost all the other flowers on the same racemes had withered.
In a Laburnum-tree I observed that about a fourth part of the racemes produced terminal flowers which had lost their papilionaceous structure.
Dutrochet remarks that the racemes on this tree do not properly produce a terminal flower, so that (as in the case of the Galeobdolon) their position as well as structure are both anomalies, which no doubt are in some manner related.
At any time the spike-like racemes contain more bright pink buds and shining seeds than flowers.
Slender racemes of this species are found blooming in dry or rocky woods from the Mississippi eastward, from May to July, by which time the ground cherry is ready to provide for the bee's wants.
The latter has loose racemes of smaller purple flowers and leaflets in threes; nevertheless it is often confounded with the ground-nut vine by older naturalists whose knowledge was "learned of schools.
The purple flowers grow in short, loose racemes at the ends of the slender branches; the seed-pod is curiously twisted or coiled.
The simple stem is closely set with lanceolate, toothed leaves, and from the axils of those on the upper half of the stem appear loose racemes of flowers.
The dull crimson flowers are borne in long, slender racemes at the top of the stem.
The flower racemes spread in a broad, pyramidal panicle.
The lanceolate leaves are seated on the stem; they diminish to the size of bracts and pass into the racemes of small, tubular, violet-blue flowers.
There is also a remarkably handsome creeper, Hexacentras mysorensis, having pendent racemes of large flowers in shape resembling the snap-dragon, and of a rich orange and chocolate colour.
Some bear their flowers in erect spikes, or loose heads; others have drooping racemes a yard in length, as some of the dendrobiums.
But the tree itself is very much admired, with its profusion of pinnate leaves and racemes of flowers that fill the air with the most agreeable odors.
On the way I found the Caesalpinia paniculuta, a magnificent climber, festooning the trues with its dark glossy foliage and gorgeous racemes of orange blossoms.
Beyond it, again, is a round-headed tree, looking like a huge Portugal laurel, covered with racemes of purple buds.
In the privet (Ligustrum vulgare) there are numerous racemes of dichasia arranged in a racemose manner along an axis; the whole inflorescence thus has an appearance not unlike a bunch of grapes, and has been called a thyrsus.
Thus we may have a group of racemes, arranged in a racemose manner on a common axis, forming a raceme of racemes or compound raceme, as in Astilbe.
The trunk of the tree is lofty and large, with wide- spreading branches; the flowers are in racemes at the ends of the branches.
Defn: The common uame of several species of the genus Fumaria, annual herbs of the Old World, with finely dissected leaves and small flowers in dense racemes or spikes.
Defn: A herbaceous climbing vine (Boussingaultia baselloides) very popular in cultivation, having shining entire leaves and racemes of small fragrant white flowers.
Pseudacacia), producing large slender racemes of white, fragrant, papilionaceous flowers, and often cultivated as an ornamental tree.
Some species of Sempervivum have a similar mode of growth, so that ultimately a kind of tube is formed, lined by the leaves, the central and innermost being the youngest.
It is here used in a general sense to express the plan of the flower, and thus includes the arrangement, form, and number of its component elements.
May, when the leaves are almost grown, on the ends of the year's growth, in racemes generally 5-10 cm.
The berries on the long racemesripen at different times and are perhaps two weeks in maturing, thus furnishing food for some time.
April or May, small, yellow or greenish, the male and female generally on different trees, on racemes up to 4 cm.
Dutrochet remarks that the racemes on this tree do not properly produce a terminal flower, so that, as in the case of the Galeobdolon, their position as well as their structure are both anomalies, which no doubt are in some manner related.
In an allied genus, Gongora, Mr. Scott has seen twenty capsules produced on a single raceme: ten such racemes on the Acropera would yield above seventy-four millions of seed.
Now this plant produces several flowers on a raceme and many racemes during a season.
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Pod raised on a stalk (stipe) little if at all surpassing the deeply deft calyx; stems long and prostrate or decumbent; racemes axillary and terminal.
Racemes much shorter and looser than in the next; the involucral scales thin and more slender; the heads somewhat larger, fully 3'' long.
Trees or shrubs, with alternate abruptly pinnate leaves, and small flowers in terminal or axillary racemes or panicles.
Perennials, with palmately cleft or dissected leaves, and showy flowers in racemes or panicles.
A variety with very short dense racemes and sweeter yellowish fruit has been found at Dedham, Mass.
Flowers greenish-yellow, in erect, slenderracemes or panicles, blooming in June.
Racemes of flowers erect, appearing after the leaves in spring.
Flowers white, conspicuous, in racemes at the ends of the branches.
Racemes erect, often compound, with bracts shorter than the flowers and with smooth filaments.
Racemes drooping, of sweet-scented flowers, with the bracts longer than the flowers.
Flowers greenish, in drooping, elongated, loose racemes appearing after the leaves in spring.
Flowers (July and August) conspicuous, white, in elongated terminal racemes which are covered with a whitish powder.
Fruit either sour or much larger, and not in elongated racemes 37.
Like Prunus Virginiana, excepting that theracemes are longer and drooping, and the stone is roughened.
Fructification in racemes directed one way and revolute, with bell-shaped corollas, and cordate leaves like those of Nicotiana rustica; but crenate, and the whole tree prickly.
Europe, a much-branched plant about a foot high with long racemes of white flowers.
The plants are perennial, rarely annual or biennial, herbs with spikes or racemes of white, blue or lilac flowers.
They are tuberous, with broadly ovate or heart-shaped leaves and racemes of white or pale lilac, drooping, funnel-shaped flowers.
The ovate-lanceolate leaves are of a light greyish-green, and the small white flowers are produced in dense racemes or spikes.
The clusters of racemes of deliciously fragrant yellow flowers are of particular value, being produced so early in the season.
Flowers small, bright yellow, and produced in few-flowered axillary racemeson short peduncles.
This is a small deciduous shrub, with ovate leaves, and short racemes of pretty pure white flowers.
The flowers are pinky-white and produced in curvingracemes and abundantly over the shrub.
The flower racemes are very long and richly coloured.
It is a tall, climbing shrub, with dark green persistent leaves, and bearing purplish flowers in drooping racemes in mid-winter.
An indigenous species, with oblong, doubly-serrated leaves, and terminal or axillary racemes of pure-white flowers.
A distinct evergreen species, with thick leathery leaves, and erect racemes of small white flowers.
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