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112 introduction to botany.
Panicle.
Panicula, Juba. The flowers are home upon peduncles which
are variously branched, and seated upon an axis.
Terminal, Panicula terminalis.
Arbutus serratifolia.
Bromus, Juncus acutus,
Not quite terminal, subapicularis, lateralis.
glomeratus, J. effusus.
Juncus con-
Axillary, axillaris. Nepeta melisssefolia.
^ Very much branched, ramosissima. A great number
of ramifications on the axis.
Lapathum obtusifolium.
Juncus effusus, J. sylvaticus,
(^pen, loose, laxa, effusa. The secondary, third, &c.
peduncles are long, flexible, distant from one another, and
inclined at the tip. Bromus arvensis, Avena sativa, A. fatua,
Yucca gloriosa. Pi. 8, fig. 7.
Divaricated, divaricata. Ramifications separate from
one another in every direction. Juncus pilosus, J. sylvaticus,
Prenanthes muralis, Gypsophila paniculata.
Spread open, palula. Secondary peduncles very open,
but not inclined. Prenanthes muralis.
Pyramidal, pyramidalis. Becoming smaller, from the
base to the top. Yucca, Agave.
Closed, coarclala. Ramifications upright and pressed
close to the axis.
montanum.
Achnatherium lanceolatum, Hypericum
Jueafyifoliata. Ramifications intermingled with leaves.
Rumex oppositifoiius, Rheum undulatum.
Thyrse.
Thyrsus. A panicle of floivers very closely compacted^ so
as to form an oval head. — Syringa vulgaris, Ligustrum
vulgare, Vitis vinifera, tEscuIus Hippocastanum.
CORYMBE.
Irregular umbell, Cor^'mbus. The flowers are home \ipo7i
secondary peduncles, which, although springing from differeiit
points of the main peduncle, are themselves of such
different lengths as to raise the flowers nearly on a level.
Simple, Corymhus simplex. The pedicells springing immediately
from the main peduncle. Scilia bifolia, Ledum^
Cardamine.