SECTION III. 



NOMENCLATURE OF THE APPENDAGES. 



1 . In this department, we have to speak of the terms 

 applied to the different varieties or peculiarities of the 

 organs \ve have previously arranged, as appendages to 

 plants. 



BRANCH OR RAMOS. 



2. The most appropriate terms applied to the branch, 

 are opposite, alternate, whorled, dispersed, descending, 

 brachiate, deflexed, reflexed, retroflexed, and fastigiate. 



a. Opposite when they go off or pair opposite to each other, as 

 in corn mint. 



b. Alternate when they are given off one after another, as in the 

 officinal marsh mallow. 



c. Whorled when more than two go from the stem in a whorled 

 manner, as in the Norway spruce fir. 



d. Dispersed when they are given off without any order. 



e. Descending descending from the stalk at an obtuse or at a 

 right angle, as in the hedge-ladies'-bedstraw and branching ammannia. 



f. Brachiated the opposite spreading branches crossing each 

 other, as in the prickly pisonia. 



g. Deflexed arched, with the apex downwards, as in the larch, 

 h. Reflexed hanging perpendicularly from the trunk. 



i. Retroflexed turned backwards, as in the bitter-sweet. 

 j. Fastigiate forming a kind of pyramid, as in the chrysanthemum 

 corymbosum. 



BULB OR BULBUS. 



3. Of the bulb, there are no particular circum- 

 stances observed, to call for any distinction in botanical 

 language. 



