Inflorescence
the arrangement mer case the branch can grow indefiof flowers upon a branch or stem. It may be axillary or terminal. In the fornitely, producing new flowers on the axthe branch, hence this kind of inflorescence is called definite. Inflorescence florescence; in the latter the terminal flower stops the further development of florescence; in the latter the terminal may be centripetal or centrifugal. Different kinds of inflorescence are (1) the flower stops the further development of spike, (2) the raceme, (3) the corymb, (4) the umbel, (5) the panicle, (6) the and (g) the cœnanthium. thyrsus, (7) the compound corymb and compound umbel, (8) the cyme. No. (1) is subdivided into- (a) the spike proper, (b) the ament or catkin, (c) the spadix, (d) the spikelet, (e) the cone, (f) the capitulum, and Inflorescence is also frequently called anthotaxis.
INFLUENZA (in-flö-en'zä), a specific membranes of the air-passages, contagious, and often epidemic, atten catarrhal inflammation of the mucous ic, attended with prostration to a marked degree, intense frontal headache, giddiness, and acrid discharge from the nose, with sleepless membranes of the air-passages, conta- gious, and often epidemic, attended with early involvement of chill, lassitude, and prostration to a marked degree, intense pros nights, and sometimes delirium. Perfrontal headache, giddiness, and acrid discharge from the nose, with sleepless nights, and sometimes delirium. Per- sistent cough, worst at night, expectoration, remittent feverishness, with noc- INFUSIONISM turnal exacerbations, lasting from four to eight days, sometimes complicated with bronchitis or even pneumonia. A form known as Spanish Influenza was epidemic in the United States and in many other countries in 1918 and 1919, and caused thousands of deaths.