Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 Excerpt: ...It is a simple instance of definite flowering. Should other flowers be produced, they will be developed on separate axes in a centrifugal manner--i.e., farther and farther from the central flower, which is the first to expand. In fig. 96 there is an instance of a many-flowered definite inflorescence in the carnation. The central flower is shown fully expanded. It terminates the primary axis. The second flower, b, is not yet expanded fully. It is produced on a secondary axis farther from the centre; while the flower, c, is still less expanded, and is produced on a tertiary axis still farther from the centre. These are two cases of definite inflorescence--the first being one-flowered, the second many-flowered. Fig. 97 is an example of indefinite inflorescence in Fig. 04.--Fruit of Fig. This is a succulent stalk, or peduncle, curved so as to form a hollow receptacle, on which numerous flowers are placed, each bearing a single-seeded seed-vessel. which the axis elongates and the lower flowers are first expanded--the others being developed in regular succession from below upwards. In fig. 98 there is another Fig. 95.--Flowering stem of Gentianella. The plant produces a single flower. The termination of the axis, a, bears two leaves or bracts, b. The flower, c, with its calyx and corolla, terminates the axis. This is the simplest form of definite inflorescence. If other axes are produced in such a case, they arise from the axil of the bracts, 6, and the flowers expand after the central one, c, or in what is called a centrifugal manner. Each axis ends in a solitary flower. Fig. 96.--Flowering stalk of Clove-pink. The inflorescence is definite and centrifugal--the central flower expanding first, afterwards those at b and c. It is a cyme. form of indefinite inflores...
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