51�Թ�

Spikelets 3–many-flowered, panicled or racemose; the flowers not webby at base.

One of the granular masses which constitute a racemose or compound gland, as the pancreas; also, one of the saccular recesses in the lobules of a racemose gland.

Flowers.—White; two lines across; in terminal racemose panicles.

Every variety of racemose and paniculate inflorescence obtains, and the number of spikelets composing those of the large kinds is often immense.

Thus we may have a group of racemes, arranged in a racemose manner on a common axis, forming a raceme of racemes or compound raceme, as in Astilbe.