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BOTANIC TERMS

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DEFINITIONS.

Tilt Student will da well to pay particular attention to the PillowingTerms, as they u-ill explain the foregoing mart particularly as to thevenation of eaihpart of the plants in general.

ROOT. TRUNK.

This as to Duration is calledAnnual, annua, perishing with the year; orPiennial, biennis, flowering another year and then perishing.Perennial, perennis, flourishing again through many years.

In Figure it is namedFibrous, fibrosa, consisting entirely of threads; orBranchy, ramosa, subdivided into fibres.Spindle-drii), fusiformis, simplish tapering.Preniorse, prxmorsa, as if lopt at the point.Creeping, repens, running some length and then budding.Jointed, articulata, intercepted with joints.Denta'e, dentnta, necklace-form, with joints chained together.Globular, glohosa, roundish, with lateral rootlets.Tuberous, tuberosa, fleshy parts connected at the base by a thread.Fascicled, fascicularis, fleshy parts connected at a sessile base.Palmate, palmala, fleshy lobed.Bulbous, bulbosa, furnished with a bulb.Granulated, granulata, besprinkled with fleshy particles.The TRUNK is thus defined:

KlNUS.

Mem, caulis, a trunk elevating the fructification and leases,(nlm, culmtts, appropriated to grasses.

Scape, scapus, elevating the fructification, but not the leave?.Stipe, stipes, a trunk becoming leave*.1) 2