spicate
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The yellow flowers are produced on spicate racemes, while the leaves are alternate, smooth and spear-shaped.
From Our Flowering Shrubs and how to know them by Anonymous
Heads spicate or racemose, the involucre well imbricated.
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 Gray, Asa
Antheridia large, pedicelled, solitary in the axils of 2-cleft spicate leaves.
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 Gray, Asa
Flowers white in spicate, thyrsoid racemes, and produced rather sparsely.
From Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs by Webster, Angus Duncan
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.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.
