racemose
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This is one of the simplest types of gland. s.g., a sweat gland, is also a simple tube, but convoluted below. r.g., is a racemose gland, such as the pancreas, Brunner's or the salivary glands.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
The spikelets are lanceolate, 2- to 3-nate, in digitate or racemose spikes, jointed on the pedicels but not thickened at the base, 1-flowered.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
Petal-bearing flowers few, racemose Frostweed, Helianthemum majus. 4a.
From The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State by Gleason, Henry Allan
The arrangement of the flowers is more racemose than fasciculate, and whilst they are very abundant they are not so large as in H. tetraptera or H. diptera.
From Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens by Cook, Ernest Thomas
Heads in a compound terminal corymb, not at all racemose 37–40 Heads small, mostly clustered in the axils of feather-veined leaves 3–7 Heads mostly large, in a terminal thyrse; leaves feather-veined.
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
