TERMS.] THE POINT. 357 



7. Hair-pointed (piliferus) ; terminating in a very fine weak point ; as the 

 leaves of many Mosses. 



8. Pointleted (apiculatus) ; terminating abruptly in a little point ; differing 

 from mucronate in the point being part of the limb, and not of a costa. 



9. Hooked (uncinatits, f uncatw) ; curved suddenly back at the point ; as the 

 leaves of Mesembryanthemum uncinatum. 



10. Beaked (rostratus, rostellatus) ; terminating gradually in a hard, long, 

 straight point ; as the pod of Radish. 



11. Acute, or sharp-pointed (acutus) ; terminating at once in a point, not 

 abruptly, but without tapering in any degree ; as any lanceolate leaf. 



12. Taper-pointed (acuminatus) ; terminating very gradually in a point ; as the 

 leaf of Salix alba. 



13. f Acuminose (f acuminosus) ; terminating gradually in a flat narrow end. 



14. Tail-pointed (caudatus) ; excessively acuminated, so that the point is long 

 and weak, like the tail of some animal ; as the calyx of Aristolochia 

 trilobata, the petals of Brassia caudata. 



15. Blunt (pbtusus) ; terminating gradually in a rounded end. 



16. Blunt with a point (obtusus cum acumine) ; terminating abruptly in a round 

 end, the middle of which is suddenly lengthened into a point ; as the leaf 

 of many Rubi. 



17. Retuse (retusus) ; terminating in a round end, the centre of which is 

 depressed ; as the leaf of Vaccinium Vitis Idsea. 



18. Emarginate (emaryinatus) ; having a notch at the end, as if a piece had been 

 taken out ; as the leaf of Buxus sempervirens. 



19. f Accisus; when the end has an acute sinus between two rounded angles. 



20. Truncate (truncatus) ; terminating very abruptly, as if a piece had been cut 

 off ; as the leaf of Liriodendron tulipifera, 



21. Bitten (prcemorsus, ^succisus) ; the same as truncate, except that the termi- 

 nation is ragged and irregular, as if bitten off : the term is generally applied 

 to roots ; the leaf of Caryota urens is another instance. 



22. f Dsedaleous (f dcedaleus) ; when the point has a large circuit, but is trun- 



cated and rugged. W 



23. Trident-pointed (tridentat^ ; when the point is truncated, and has three 

 indentations ( W.) ; as Saxifraga tridentata, Potentilla tridentata. 



24. Headed (capitatus) ; suddenly much thicker at the point than in any other 

 part ; a term confined to cylindrical or terete bodies ; as glandular hairs, &c. 



25. Lamellar (lamellatus, lamellosus) ; having two little plates at the point ; as 

 the style of many plants. 



26. f Blunt (f JiebetatuSy De Cand.) ; having a soft obtuse termination. 



27. Pointless (muticus). This term is employed only in contradistinction to 

 some other that indicates being pointed ; thus, if in contrasting two things, 

 one were said to be mucronate, the other, if it had not a mucro, would be 

 called pointless : and the same term would be equally employed in contrast 

 with cuspidate or aristate, or any such. It is also used absolutely. 



