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EXPLANATION OF TERMS. 



Frondescent, 



Geniculated, 



Gibbous, 



Imbricated, 



Lacinules, 



Laciniated, 



Lynceous, 



Molluscas, 



OsculeSf 



Ovaria, 



Paniculated, 



Pedicels, -x 

 Pedicules, 3 

 Pedunculus, 

 Pelagian, 

 Pinnated, 



Pinnates, and J 

 Pinules, y 



Proliferous, 



Pyriform, 



Rhomb, 



Rhomboidal, 



Sessile, 



Setaceous, 



Simple, 



Spatulated, 



Stipitated, 



Stipula, 



Stoloniferous, 



cells and their bases the same material. 



knee-jointed. 



protuberant. 



tiled one over the other. 



jags or shreds. 



jagged. 



woody. 



soft-bodied animals, as worms, oysters, &c. 



lips, here applied to the holes in sponges. 



the supposed embryos of future polypi- 

 doms. 



an assemblage growing on stalks, irre- 

 gularly united to one stalk, like oats, 

 or many grasses. 



little foot- stalks. 



a foot-stalk, 

 sea deeps. 



winged, or growing like the feather part 

 of a quill. 



the pinnated expansions. 



shooting out fresh branches from the 



summits of former ones, 

 like a pyramid, 

 a figure of four sides, 

 nearly of the figure of a rhomb, 

 close to the stem without a foot-stalk, 

 bristly, 

 unbranched. 

 spoon-shaped, 

 standing on a pillar, 

 a prop, 

 having suckers. 



