Identifier: plantstheirway00ston (find matches)
Title: Plants and their ways in South Africa
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Stoneman, Bertha, 1866-
Subjects: Plants
Publisher: London, Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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Fig. 143.^Compound umbel of Bubon. (From Edmonds and Marloths Elementary Botany for South Africa .) on the stem. In other umbels of this order the central flowersopen first. The simple umbel oi Nerine (Fig. 142) is definite, as theyare in Asclepias, Hydrocotyle, Sparmannia. (The youngestflowers in the Sunflower family are always at the centre but inScabiosa the heads are cymose. These definite umbels mayconsist of condensed clusters of cymes as in Agapaiithus. The garden Foxglove sometimes, instead of rearing statelyracemes of flowers, has a large terminal flower which looks likeseveral joined into one (peloria). This stops the growth of 10 * 148 Plants and their Ways in South Africa the main shoot which then sends out late all shoots with cymoseracemes.
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Fig. 144.—Gerbera asplenifolia, Spr. I. Section through head. II. Diskfloret. (From Edmonds and Marloths Elementary Botany for SouthAfrica.) Flower Arrangements. General Method. Kinds of Clusters. Indefinite . . . Spike—Catkin : deciduous, pistillate and staminate flowers; Oak.Spadix : fleshy spike ; Arum.Cone: parts hard and woody ;Fir, Leucadendron. Flowers and their Parts 149 General Method. Usually indefinite Definite . Mixed Kinds of Clusters.. Raceme—Corymb: more or less flat-topped ; Ornithogalum.Panicle: branched stalks;Grasses.Umbel—Simple : Hydrocotyle (definite.) Compound: Daucns.Capitulum (or head)—Composites, Pro-tea.. Cyme—2-sided : dichasium, Spergula,Crassula.i-sided : cincinnus, Lohostemon,Heliotrope.. Cymose—(Heads and panicles)—Leonotis,Olive. Bracts.—In examining flower arrangements, the flowersare usually found protected by one or more leaf-like bodies,green or coloured, whichmay have been mistakenfor the calyx. In G/a-diolus^ Antholyza, andtheir

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