spicate

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More hispid and rough, very leafy; leaves rigid, pinnately parted into 3–7 narrowly linear acute divisions, those subtending the densely spicate flowers similar and crowded; corolla over 1´ long.—Prairies,

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Spiraea.—Vigorous growing plants of great beauty, preferring good, deep, rather moist soil; the flowers small but very abundant, in large corymbose or spicate panicles.

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The yellow flowers are produced on spicate racemes, while the leaves are alternate, smooth and spear-shaped.

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The spikelets are all unisexual, spicate, the male and female spikelets are dissimilar, and are on the same or on different spikes.

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Under this head, too, may be included those cases wherein an ordinarily spicate inflorescence becomes paniculate owing to the branching of the axis and the formation of an unwonted number of secondary buds.

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