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INTRODUCTION TO BOTANY.
Three-forked, tricholomus. Divided and subdivided into
secondarj', &c. leafstalks by being split eacii time into
three. Epimedium alpinum. PI. 6, fig. 1
*[ Tendril-bearing, cirriferus. Bearing tendrils. Smilax
horrida. PL 8, fig. 2.
Tendril-like, cirriformis. Twining like a tendril. Fumaria
capreolata. Clematis orientalis. PI. 6, fig. 14.
Stipuled, stipidifenis. Leafstalk, or the primary leaf-
stalk, if compound, furnished at the bottom with stipules.
Rosa, Ononis, Mespilus Germanica, Oxalis corniculata.
Stipellated, slipellaii. Secondary, &c. leafstalks furnished
at their base with small stipules.
Gland-bearing, glanduliferus. Furnished with glands.
Opulus palustris, Prunus.
Margined, winged, marginatus, alatus. Furnished with
expansions on the sides. Pisum Ochrus, Citrus Aurantium.
Sheathing, vaginans. Forming a sheath round the
stem or scape. Gramineae, Cyperacese, Umbelliferee. PI. 4,
fig. 1.
Convolute, convolulus. Resembling a lamina rolled
round the stalk. Gramineae.
Tubular, iuhulatus. Forming a tube sheathing the stem.
Cyperaceae.
Inflated, inflatus. Hollow and swelling. Trapa natans.
Locular, loculosus. Hollow and divided by partitions.
Eryngiura corniculatum.
Thorned, spinescens. Ending in a thorn. Robinia
Halodendron.
Beside these characters, it is necessary to attend to the
form of the leafstalk, whether cylindrical, clubshape,
grooved, compressed, depressed ; to its length compared
with that of the leaf; and to its length in respect to our
common measures.
LIGULE.
Ligula, Collare. A memhranous appendage surmounting
the sheathing petiole, at the junction between the sheath
and the blade of the leaf.
Uncut, Ligula integra. Poa pratensis.
CXehf fissa. Phleum crinitum.
Torn, lacera. Milium lentigerum.
Fringed, ciliata. Holcus lanatus.
Truncated, truncata. Avena fatua.
Acuminated, acuminata. Phalaris paradoxa.
Scalelike, squamiformis. Poa arenosa. PI. 4, fig. 1.
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