racemose

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Pale or glaucous; stem simple, 1–2° high; leaves sessile, oblong- or linear-lanceolate, entire, or the lower runcinate-pinnatifid; heads few and large, racemose, erect on scaly-bracted peduncles; involucral scales imbricated in 3 or 4 ranks.

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 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)

Flowers monœcious; staminate white and racemose; pistillate solitary, growing at the base of the staminate racemes.

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

Capsule oblong, few-seeded, early ruptured through one side.—Flowers solitary or racemose, stalked.

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 yellowish-white, terminal in racemose panicles with opposite peduncles.

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