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214 INTRODUCTION TO BOTANY.
^ 'La.Y'ye, magjice. Relatively to the radicle. AmygdaluSy
Faba, Quercus, Castanea vesca.
Middlesize, mediocres. Polygonum, Galium, Pisius,
Small, parvce. Orontium majus, Polemonium.
'Mevy &maW, parvidcE. Rhododendron.
Long, longce. Salsola.
Short, breves. Hopea.
Shortened, abbreviates. Short, but broad.
Broad, /a^tc. In respect to their length. Avicennia.
Narrow, angusfo'. Salsola, Hieracium, Pinus.
Thick, crassce. iEsculus, Amygdalus, Phaseokis, Quercus,
Castanea vesca.
51 Side, laterales. On one side of the blasteme, which
position is peculiar to the one-cotyledon embryos. Gramineae.
Opposite- oppositcs. Placed at the same height on the
blasteme, but diametrically opposite, as in two-cotyledon
embryos. Phaseolus, Faba, Pisum.
In whirls, verticiltatce. Many, and placed round the
blasteme at the same height. Pinus, Abies, Larix, Ceratophyllum.
Contiguous, conligU(S. Their internal faces closely applied
to each other.. Most two-cotjdedon plants, Rosaceffi^
LiCguminosas.
Incumbent, incumbenles. Contiguous and lying upon
one another, the one towards the summit of the seed, the
other towards the hile. Hesperis, Smyrnium.
Accumbent, accumbenies. Contiguous, and lying side by
side. Nasturtium, Cardamine.
Wide apart, dlvergentcs. Separating from one another
by their tips. De]i)hinlum puniceum, Myristica.
Turned back, reflcxce. Bent, and turning their tip to
the tip of the radicle, Nyctagyne^e, Dorstenia ; and that
cither by their faces, a fadebus, Mirabilis Jalapa; or by
their side, a laleribus, Genista Hispanica, Cheiranthus,
Helianthemum.
Rolled lengthways, circhiatce. Forming a spiral by their
iip being rolled inwards to the bottom. Basella, Anabasis,
Rolled sideways, convuLiitce. Forming a spiral by one
of their sides being rolled inwards. Punica Granatum.,
PI. 15, %. I9-_ \
Riding, sa invlcem equ'Uaiites, obvoluico, opposite. The
half of one cotyledon folded sideways receives into the fold
the half of the ether folded in a similar manner. Coldenia
procumbens.