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INTROBUCTION TO BOTANY.
INFLORESCENCE. HEAD.
HEAD, Fascicled, fasciculalum, when a collection of erect parallel flow-ers approach each other, level at the top.
Heaped, coiigestum, having great ahundance of flowers.Dense, densum, having the flowers abundant, but more close.Spiked, sulcatum, approaching to a spiked form.Spreading, pate-is, when the partial foot-stalk stands at acute an-gles with the common.Diffuse, rfi^"us«m,havingthe pedicels standing still more spreading.Divaricated, divaricatum, spreading so that the pedicels form anobstuse angle with the stalk.SPIKE, spica, alternate sessile flowers on a simple common peduncle.Simple, simplex, continued, undivided.
Compound, composita, many spikelets growing on a peduncle.Glomerate, glomerata, spikelets variously heaped together.Egg-shaped, ovata, of an egg shape.Bellied, ventricosa, gibbous on the sides.Cylindric, cylindrica, taperish. One-ranked, secunda, means the
above halved.Interrupted, interrupts, with less alternate distinct spikes.Imbricated, imbricata.Jointed, arliculala.Branched, ramosa, variously divided.Linear, linearis.Fringed, ciliala.
Leafy, foliacea, divided by leaves.Tufted, comosa, terminated with leaflets.
CORYMBE, arrymlms, is formed from a spike when all the flowers arefurnished with their appropriated petioles, and proportionallyelevated.
THYRSE, thyrsus, a panicle, condensed into an egg'd form.
RACEME, racemus, with peduncle furnished with lateral branches.Simple, simplex, undivided.Compound, compositus, divided into many.One-sided, unilateris, all the flowers inserted on one side.One-rowed, secundus, all the flowers bent to one side.
PANICLE, panicula, scattered flowers on a peduncle variously divided.
According to the structure of the trunk.UMBEL, umbella, a receptacle elongated from one centre into thread-formed proportional peduncles.Simple, simplex, all the peduncles arising from one and the same
receptacle.Compound, composita, all the peduncles bearing umbellets on
their tops.Universal, universalis, composed of many simple ones.