The oldest flowers are at the base of the inflorescence and the youngest at the apex. Raceme: The flowers are with pedicels of about the same length, which are attached along the elongate and unbranched peduncle of the inflorescence (examples: lily of the valley, snapdragon, mustard, currant). Spike: The flowers, which are with a very short or with no pedicel, are attached along the elongate and unbranched peduncle of the inflorescence (examples: plantain, spearmint, tamarisk). Some of the common types of inflorescences are as follows: The arrangement of pedicels on a peduncle characterizes different kinds of inflorescences. It mayalso bear numerous smaller stalks called pedicels, each with a flower at its tip. An inflorescence has one main stalk, or peduncle. The flowers are 12 centimetres (0.40.8 in) across, yellow, with five pointed lobes on the corolla they are borne in a cyme of 312 together.Flowers may be solitary, or they may be grouped together in an inflorescence, a cluster of flowers. Johnson Olive, Wake County, North Carolina, One of the wonders of the age, or, The life and times of Rev. Smithian herbarium in the Linnean Society, where the ultimate branches of the cyme bear small leaves.Īnd yet the name linden was writ large on those trees, - on the beautiful gray bark, the alternate method of twig arrangement, the fat red winter buds, which shone in the sunshine like rubies, and especially on the little cymes of pendulous, pea-like fruit, each cyme attached to its membranaceous bract or wing.Īs he treats of sin, righteousness, and a judgment to cyme, and holds up as sacrifice for sin and a mediator for man the crucified Lord, every heart becomes softened, sinners go by tens and by scores to the anxious seat Christians become aroused fear and shame are lost, and all in some way join in the work.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants 206 represents a specimen of _Ranunculus acris_, in which the lower and lateral flower-stalks were not only increased in number, but so much lengthened as to form a flat-topped inflorescence - a corymbose cyme. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cureįig.
The _Sedum Acre_ (or Biting Stone-crop) is also named Pepper crop, being a cyme, or head of flowers, which furnishes a pungent taste like that of pepper. The flowers are 1-2 cm across, yellow, with five pointed lobes on the corolla they are borne in a cyme of 3-12 together. Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers Now there is already a received and useful botanical word, ' cyme' Transactions of the American Philosophical Society Successive repetitions of this sympodial branching on alternate sides of the apparent axis produce a scor - pioid cyme, which is usually developed with more or less regularity (Fig.
noun A usually flat-topped or convex flower cluster in which the main axis and each branch end in a flower that opens before the flowers below or to the side of it.From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.