APPENDIX A 



SIGNS AND ABBREVIATIONS 



V or 

 when it 



is 



annual, usually monocarpic. 



strictly annual. 



or biennial. 



If. perennial. 



f-j a tree or with a woody trunk. 



< male ; ? female ; 

 hermaphrodite (used 

 exceptional). 



oo indefinite, employed when the 

 number is too great to be easily 

 counted, as stamens or ovules. 



x hybrid ; also used to denote the 

 magnifying power. 



! seen by the author : thus Aotus 

 villosa, Sm. !, means that the type 

 specimen, or a specimen ticketed by 

 Smith has been verified by inspec- 

 tion ; if appended to a collector's 

 number, that is verified, as Bur- 

 chell 3641 ! 



* employed in divers senses, as (1) by 

 Linnaeus, De Candolle and others 

 to indicate that a good description 

 or figure will be found at the place 

 cited ; (2) when between the speci- 

 fic name and a third appended 

 name, denotes a siibspecies ; (3) in 

 an index, shows that the genus, 

 species or variety, was ostensibly 

 first published at the place in- 

 dexed. 



f an obscure or doubtful species. 

 section, the division of a genus. 



= equals, the sign of a synonym. 



' " or ' " '" have been used for 

 feet, inches, and lines respectively. 



/j. micromillimeter, the one - thou- 

 sandth of a millimeter. 



The position of the cotyledons of 

 Cruciferae in the seed are denoted 

 thus: o=, accumbent ; o||, in- 

 cumbent ; < < o, conduplicate ; 

 o 11 ||, spirolobous ; o || || || for those 

 of the Diplecolobeae. 



char. 



cm. 



fern. 



fl. 



fr. 



gen. 



Hab. 



Hb.,Herb 



ined. 



Ic. 

 I.e. 



Lin. 



m. 



masc. 



mm. 



n. 



Nat. Ord, 



character, 

 centimeter. 

 feminea, female. 

 jlos or floret. 

 fructus or fruit, 

 genus. 



Habitatio, habitat. 

 Herbarium, as 

 Lugd. Bat., the 



Herb. 

 Herb- 



arium of the Leyden 

 University. 



ineditus, unpublished ; it 

 either remains in manu- 

 script or is about to be 

 published. 



Icon, pi. Icones, figures ; 

 Ic. xyl., a woodcut. 



loco citato, in the place 

 mentioned ; 11. cc. locis 

 citatis, in the places 

 mentioned ; to avoid 

 repetition of titles. 



a line in measurement, 

 linea, the twelfth of an 

 inch. 



meter or metre. 



masculus, male. 



millimeter, the one thou- 

 sandth of a meter. 



numerus, number. 



Natural Order, Ordo natu- 

 ralis. 



pagina, page. 



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