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BOTANIC TERMS AND DEFINITIONS.

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TRUNK. BRANCHES.

Ijea( y> folialus, furnished with leaves.

Sheathed, vaginatus, surrounded with sheaths of leaves.

Scaly, squamosus, sprinkled with scales.

Imbricated, imbricates, covered so as not to appear naked.

The Surface isCorky, sulensus, clothed with an exterior bark, softer but not elastic.Riniose, rimnsus, spontaneously forming cracks in the exterior baik.Coated, tunicaLus, clothed with membranes.Polished, kevis, «ith an equal surface.Striated, striatus, engraved with very fine hollow lines.Furrowed, sulcatus, ploughed with deep lines.Murexed, muricatus, sprinkled with awl-shape points.Thorny, spinosus, armed with spines.

Stinging, urens, sprinkled with stings.

Stipuled, stipulaUts, having stipules.

Membranous, membranahts, flattened like a leaf.

Bulb-bearing, bidbiferus, producing hulbs.

In Structure the trunk isKnotless, eiiodis, continued without joints.Very simple, simplicUsimus, with scarcely any branches.Simple, simplex, extended into a continued seiies towards the top.Entire, integer, very simple with small branches.Jointed, articulalus, intercepted with knots.Proliferous, prolifer, putting out branches only from the centre to

the top.Two-forked, dithnfnmus, divided always by pairs.Cross-armed, braehiatus, with branches opposed cross-wise.Somewhat-branchy, subramosus, with very few lateral branches.Branchy, ramosus, with many lateral branches.Very branchy,ramosusimus,tbronged with many branches without order.Twigfy, virgatus, with weak unequal branehlets.Panicled, paniculatus, with branches variously subdivided.Level.topt, fastigiatus, with branches of equal height.Expanding, patens, widely spreading.Divaricated, divaricatus, dividing in oblique angles.

BRANCHES are said to beVerticilled, verticzllati, when many are surrounding the trunk at the

joints.Condensed, coarctali, almost leaning over towards the top.Diverging, divergenlcs, parting from the trunk at a right angle.Divaricated, divaricali, parting from the trunk at an dbru'se angle.Deflected, drfiexi, inclining downwards in an arch.Reflected, rejkxi, hanging'perpendicularly.Retroflected, retrojiexi, this way and that way distorted.Propped, fuhrati, furnished with props.D3