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Another illustration of the sort is that recorded by M. Fournier, wherein the usually umbellate inflorescence of Pelargonium was, through the lengthening of the main stalk, transformed into a raceme.

From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.

Flowers terminal in umbellate panicles, the umbellets opposite and each bearing 3 flowerets.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers

Its large deep-red, umbellate blossoms are visible from afar gleaming among the green vegetation along the coast.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von

Otherwise as in Scirpus.—Spikelets single or clustered or umbellate, usually involucrate with erect scale-like bracts, upon a leafy or naked stem; scales membranaceous, 1–3-nerved.

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

This fact at once points to an analogy with the umbellate allies, and induces us to examine the insertion of the flowers more critically.

From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Vries, Hugo de