Botany for young people and common schools. How plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany (1858)
Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 · New York, American Book Company · leaf 69
61 FLOWERS : THEIR ARRANGEMENT ON THE STEM. 143 shows the plan of it. It is plainly the same as a raceme with the lower pedicels much longer than the uppermost. Shorten the body, or axis, of a corymb … 180. A Head is a flower- * cluster with a very short body, or axis, and without any pedi¬ cels to the blossoms, or hardly any, so that it has a rounded form. The Button-bush (Fig. 145), the Thistle, and the Bed Clover are good examples. 181. It is plain that an umbel would be changed into a head by…
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