raceme
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I know the difference between a raceme and a rhizome, I explicate photosynthesis, I can spell Scrofulariaciae.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
Scape.—Two to five feet high; with scattered leaves; bearing at top a dense raceme a foot or two long.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
Leaves linear or nearly so, extremely numerous; raceme dense; corolla 1´ long or more, including the slender subulate spur; seeds winged.—Fields and roadsides, throughout our range.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Otherwise as in Smilacina.—Flowers solitary or fascicled, in a simple raceme upon a low 2–3-leaved stem.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Flowers large, purple, in a long raceme; calyx-limb deeply parted; petals entire; stamens and style successively deflexed; stigma of 4 long lobes.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
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