The flowers of this species are in spicate racemes, but others are in corymbs, as in S.
Brown, contains principally hothouse plants with erect spicate racemes or panicles of small flowers.
Under this head, too, may be included those cases wherein an ordinarily spicate inflorescence becomes paniculate owing to the branching of the axis and the formation of an unwonted number of secondary buds.
In Grasses, as indeed in other plants with a spicate inflorescence, this change occurs not unfrequently.
The exact summits of all the hills are covered with a coarse spicate Saccharum.
Many flowers from the axil of a bract; no bractioles interspersed, hence we may expect racemose or spicate partial inflorescences.
Antheridia oval, 2--3 in the axils of spicate leaves.
Antheridia in the base of inflated spicate leaves.
Antheridia in the ventricose bases of spicate leaves.
Flowers unisexual, racemose, spicate or capitate; calyx becoming fleshy or juicy in fruit.
Heads spicate or racemose in the axils of leaves or leaf-like bracts; fertile flowers with evident corolla.
A stout erect subaquatic perennial, with the short spikes erect and simply spicate or in a strict narrow panicle.
Spikelets several-flowered, narrow, erect and scattered along the slender rhachis of the longspicate spikes; flowers all perfect or the uppermost staminate.
Flower (in ours) ringent and spurred, spicateupon a leafy stem.
Antheridia large, pedicelled, solitary in the axils of 2-cleft spicate leaves.
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