When cutting these flowers, the whole corymb should be taken, as in this particular case we could not wish for. From Wordnik.com. [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference
The stem by which the flower is supported unites at the head of the primary branches into thick, short, irregular bundles, in the form of a corymb. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
In the apple I have observed leafy shoots bearing terminal tufts of leaves where the flower should have been, so that what, under ordinary circumstances would be a corymb of flowers, is here represented by a series of tufts of leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
The smaller corymbs are arched or convex, causing the cluster or compound corymb to present an uneven surface; the small flowers are of rich old gold colour, and have the appearance of knotted gold cord; they are very rigid, almost hard. From Wordnik.com. [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference
Bubo folum torre ab ilia, quam corymb! tortiles 10. From Wordnik.com. [Poema Alexandri Pope De homine, Jacobi Thomson [the Hymn from The seasons], & Thomae Gray ...] Reference
The flowers are smaller, and grow on long, slender peduncles, in a lax corymb. From Wordnik.com. [General directions for collecting and drying medicinal substances of the vegetable kingdom : list and description of indigenous plants, etc., their medicinal properties, forms of administration, and doses,] Reference
Joe-Pye-Weed strode along with his dull pink corymb proudly elevated above the throng. From Wordnik.com. [Ethel Morton's Enterprise] Reference
Flowers delicate rose color, numerous, growing on the ends of the branches, and forming a large terminal corymb. From Wordnik.com. [General directions for collecting and drying medicinal substances of the vegetable kingdom : list and description of indigenous plants, etc., their medicinal properties, forms of administration, and doses,] Reference
Flowers numerous, in a panicled corymb, with peduncles bearing from one to three flowers, in color resembling the E. heterophyllum. From Wordnik.com. [General directions for collecting and drying medicinal substances of the vegetable kingdom : list and description of indigenous plants, etc., their medicinal properties, forms of administration, and doses,] Reference
Flowers white, tinged with red, disposed in a small terminal corymb, standing upon nodding peduncles and appearing in June and July. From Wordnik.com. [General directions for collecting and drying medicinal substances of the vegetable kingdom : list and description of indigenous plants, etc., their medicinal properties, forms of administration, and doses,] Reference
This plant is an erect, rather stiff, very bitter annual, 6 to 12 inches high; flowers milky white, forming a terminal flat corymb; leaves oblong. From Wordnik.com. [Find Me A Cure] Reference
Nevertheless I succeeded in finding it about eight miles west of the Falls; touched it and smelled it, and secured a lingering corymb of flowers for my herbarium. From Wordnik.com. [Excursions] Reference
Don't expect the plant to reach more than about four feet by four feet, but if you're good spatially, you can fit about a million Seychellois Rupees around the perimeter of the corymb. From Wordnik.com. [The Morning News] Reference
The dwarf Canadian cornel bears a corymb of red berries which are highly ornamental to the woods throughout the country but are not otherwise worthy of notice for they have an insipid farinaceous taste and are seldom gathered. From Wordnik.com. [The Journey to the Polar Sea] Reference
The dwarf Canadian cornel, bears a corymb of red berries, which are highly ornamental to the woods throughout the country, but are not otherwise worthy of notice, for they have an insipid farinaceous taste, and are seldom gathered. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 1] Reference
Every one can appreciate the difference between green or red cabbages with great single heads; Brussel-sprouts with numerous little heads; broccolis and cauliflowers with the greater number of their flowers in an aborted condition, incapable of producing seed, and borne in a dense corymb instead of an open panicle; savoys with their blistered and wrinkled leaves; and borecoles and kales, which come nearest to the wild parent-form. From Wordnik.com. [The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.] Reference
A plant with a very slender erect green stem, which, when full grown, branches at the top into a loose corymb of blue flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Invention and Industry] Reference
Aloe flor.pcdunc. cernuk corymb. fubcylindrids. From Wordnik.com. [The Universal Botanist and Nurseryman] Reference
J periuribns oHrnfis tomenCoiiSy corymb, coa. From Wordnik.com. [Caroli a Linné ... Systema vegetabilivm secvndvm classes, ordines, genera, species cvm characteribvs et differentiis. Editio decima quarta praecedente longe avctior et correctior cvrante Io. Andrea Mvrray ..] Reference
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