Crossword-Solution: RACEMED 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Everywhere along thickets, fence-rows, etc., and several varieties cultivated; stems one to six feet high, furrowed; prickles strong and hooked; leaflets three to five, ovate or lance-ovate, pointed, their lower surface and stalks hairy and glandular, the middle one long-stalked and sometimes heart-shaped; flowers racemed, rather large, with short bracts; fruit oblong or cylindrical.

The little white flowers which appear in midsummer are racemed in leafy whorls, followed by small black fruits, popularly called seeds.

The flowers, generally blue, sometimes pink, violet-red, or white, are loosely racemed at the extremities of the branches and main stems.

STYRAX.= Shrubs or small trees with commonly deciduous leaves, and axillary, or racemed, white, showy flowers on drooping stems.

Its fragrant white blossoms, before the leaves, make the tree look like a hawthorn; but its unique distinction is that the racemed flowers give place to berries of a brilliant turquoise blue, which make this shrubby tree a most striking and beautiful object in the autumn when the leaves are turning yellow.