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INTRODUCTION TO BOTANY.

TRUNK.

In DurationHerbaceous, herhaceus, root perpnnial, but the stem annual (not

woody).Somewhat-shrubby, suffrulicosus, permanent at the ba'.e, the yearly

branches withering.Shrubby, fmticasus, perennial with many stocks.Arborescent, arboreus, perennial with a simple stock.

Tn SubstanceSolid, solidus, filled full within.Empty, inanis, spungy internally with pith.Piped, fistulosus, tubular within.

The Direction is

Erect, erectus, raising itself almost perpendicularly.

Straight, slrictus, quite perpendicular without bending.

Rigid, rigidus, impatient of flexure.

Flexible, laxus, easily bent into a bow.

Oblique, oUiquus, between a perpendicular and horizontal line.

Ascending, ascer.dens, archwise upwards.

Declined, declinalus, descending archwise.

Incurvate, incurvatus, nodding upwards.

Nodding, nutans, bent down outward from the top.

Spreading, diffusus, with expanding branchlets.

Procumbent, procumbens, weak, supported on the earth.

Slolomferus, giving out scions from the root.

Sarmentons, sarmenlusus, thread-form with rout-striking branches.

Creeping, repeus, lying on the earth and striking roots.

Rooting, radicans, fixing itself by deep lateral roots.

Knotted, geniculatus, intercepted by knots.

Winding, ftexuosus, bending from bud to bud this way and that.

Climbing, scandens, rising high, sustained on others.

Twining, voluliilis, ascending spirally by other bodies.

From the right, de.vtrorsum, to the left.From the left, snristrorsiim , to the right.

The Trunk in Fiouhe isColumnar, teres, without angles; or

Semicolumnar, semiteres, flat on one side, roundish on the other.Compressed, cumpressus, the two opposite sides flat.Two-edged, anceps, the two opposite angles rather acute.Angled, angulatus, grooved longitudinally with more than two hollowangles.

Acuteangular, acutangulus, from the figure of the angles.Three-cornered, {rigunus, with threu prominent longitudinal angles.Three-sided, triqueler, with three sides exactly flat.Naked, nudus, opposed to the five following, viz.I.eaiitss, aphyllus, destitute of leaies.