150 INSERTION OF LEAVES. 



diately from the stem, branch or root, 

 without any footstalk, as in Ancliusa 

 sempervirens, Engl. Bot. t. 45, and 

 Pinguicula vulgaris, t. 70. 

 Amplexicaulia, clasping the stem with 

 their base, as the upper leaves of Glau- 

 cium luteum, t. 8, Gentiana campestris, 

 t. 237, and Humea elegans, Exot. Bot. 

 t. 1. 

 Comiata, connate, united at their base, as 

 Chlora perfoliate Engl. Bot. t. 60, 

 whose leaves are connato-perfoliata. 

 Perforata, perfoliate, when the stem runs 

 through the leaf, as Bupleurum rotundi- 

 folium, t. 99, and the Uvularue, Exot. 

 Bot. t. 49, 50, 51. 

 Vaginantia, sheathing the stem or each 

 other, as in most grasses ; see Phleum 

 alpinum, Engl. Bot. t. 5i9,nndArundo 

 arenaria^ t. 520. The same character 

 is found in many of the Orchis tribe, as 

 Satyrium albidum, t. 505. 

 Equitantia, equitant, disposed in two op- 

 posite rows and clasping each other by 

 their compressed base, as in Narthecium 

 ossifragum, t. 535, and the genus Iris; 



