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INTRODUCTION TO BOTANY.
Alternate, alterna. One by one by spaces along the
stem. Graminese, Acetosa vulgaris, Hesperis matronalis,
Rosa, P3'rus.
Spirally, spiralia. Alternate in two, three, or more parallel
series round the stem. Abies Picea, Lycopodium
abietiforme.
Orderless, scattered, sparsa. Growing without any regular
order. Antirrhinum majus, Hedera communis, Reseda
salicifolia.
Two-ranked, disticha. With their points of attachment,
and tbeir direction on two opposite sides. Ulraus cani-
pestris.
% Distant, remota. Placed at a greater distance from one
another than usual.
Crowded, approximaia, conferta. Placed at a less distance
from one another than usual. Daphne sempervirens.
Tile-like, imhricata. One covering another like the tiles
of a house. Saxifraga oppositifolia, Sedum acre, S. rupestre.
Roselike, rosaceous, roselata. Alternate, numerous,
crowded, and diverging, so as to appear like a double rose.
Sempervivum tectorum, Saxifraga pyramidalis.
Crowning, coronantia. Roselike, and terminating the
stem or its divisions. Palmae, Filices arborese, Oarica
Papaya.
^ In hunAle'^, fasciculata. Several leaves from the same
point. Berberis vulgaris, Larix.
Twin, gemmaia, Una. In bundles of two leaves each.
Galanthus nivalis, Atropa lethalis, Pinus sylvestris, P. ma-
ritima.
In bundles of three, ler7ia. Pinus Tseda, P. palustris.
In bundles of five, quina. Pinus Strobus, P. Cembro,
3. Attachment.
Squatted, Folia sessilia. Growing without any footstalk.
Mentha sylvestris, Androssemum officinale. Genista, Telephium.
Decurrent, decurrentia. Sessile, and the lower part of
the leaf extended along the stem. Symphytum officinale,
Carduus lanceolata. PI. 6, fig. 11.
Embracing, amplexicaidia. Embracing the stalk, by an
enlargement of their base. Silybum Marise, Papaver soniniferum.
PI. 6, fig. 7.