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INTRODUCTION TO BOTANY,
6. Duration.
Once-fruiting, Plantcs monocarpiece.
once in their lite.
Bearing fruit only
1 Ephemeral, epheynercE^ fugaces. Lasting only a few
days, or even hours. Tremella, many fungi.
2. Annual, annucB, Lasting near a whole summer.
Hordeum.
3. Biennial, liennes. Producing leaves only the first
year, and flowers and fruit in the succeeding. Verbascum
decurrens, CEnothera biennis.
4. Slow growing, perennes. Being several years before
they flower, and dying soon after. Agave.
Many-fruiting, polycarpicce. Bearing fruit several times
during their life.
1. Perennial, perennes, restihilia, rhizocarpiece. Dying
clown to the ground every year, and in the following producing
new flowering stems. Aster.
2. Arborescent, caulocarpiece, fruticosce. The stem itself
lasts during the life of the plant. Trees, shrubs.
7. Mode of production.
Seed-bearing, Plantce seminiferce. Bearing seeds. Most
plants.
Gongyliferous, gongyliferce. Bearing gongyles or spores.
Mosses, Algas.
Stool-bearing, Stoloniferce. Throwing out stools, siolones,
which take root. Pilosella.
Runner-bearing, viticulosce. Throwing out runners,
vilicidce, sarmenia, or flagella, which, take root from space
to space.
Shoot-bearing, s?ircidifh-ce. Throwing out shoots, sur-
culi, from the crown of the root, which may be separated,
and will then produce a new plant. Oliva europsea.
PropacuUfercB. Throwing out a shoot terminating by a
leaf-bud, which, when separated from the original plant,
will grow. Sempervivum. ?
Bulbous, h'llhoscE. Furnished with a bulb, under ground,
throwing up leaves and a stem. Lilium, Tulipa, AUium,
Cepa.
Bulbilliferous, hulhillifercp, sobolij'ercp. Producing small
bulbs, lulbilli, propagines, bacilli, soholes, sautellce, on the
axillae of their branches, or leaves, or elsewhere, above
ground. Criniun bulbifcrum. Allium.
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