Crossword-Solution: CYMES 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

MEADOW-SWEET (_Spiræa Ulmaria_).—Raising its creamy cymes of blossoms in every ditch where there is a little moisture.

MOUNTAIN ASH (_Pyrus Aucuparia_).—This rowan-tree of Scotland has no weird horrors here, but it is the ornament of the woods, with white cymes, red berries, and feathery leaves.

GUELDER-ROSE (_Viburnum Opulus_).—Equally handsome whether white-garlanded cymes of blossoms or scarlet berries, waxen when partly ripe.

Flowers; small and white, in little cymes, usually contracted into umbels on a common peduncle, from very short, to nearly one inch long.

The _Hortensia_ of our gardens is another instance of a sterile form which has been observed to throw out a branch with cymes bearing in their center the usual small staminate and pistillate flowers instead of the large radiate and neutral corollas of the variety, thereby returning to the original wild type.