TERMS.] 



ARRANGEMENT. 



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4. Whorled (verticiUatun) ; when several things are in opposition round a 

 common axis, as some leaves round their stem ; sepals, petals, and stamens 

 round the ovarium, &c. 



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.5. Ternate (temus) ; when three things are in opposition round a common axis. 



G. Loose (laxus); when the parts are distant from each other, with an open 

 light kind of arrangement ; as the panicle among the other kinds of inflores- 

 cence. 



7. Scattered (sparsus); used in opposition to whorled, or opposite, or ternate, 

 or other such terms. 



8. Compound (compositus) ; when formed of several parts united in one common 

 whole ; as pinnated leaves, all kinds of inflorescence beyond that of the 

 solitary flower. 



9. Crowded (confertus) ; when the parts are pressed closely round about each 

 other. 



1 0. Imbricated (imbricatus) ; when parts lie over each other in regular order, 



like tiles upon the roof of a house ; as the scales upon the cup of some acorns. 



11. Rosulate (rosulatus, rosularis); when parts which are not opposite, never- 



theless become apparently so by the contraction of the joints of the stem, 

 and lie packed closely over each other, like the petals in a double rose ; as 

 in the offsets of Houseleek. 



12. Ceespitose (ccespitosus)', forming dense patches, or turfs; as the young stems 



of many plants. 



1 3. Fascicled (fasciculatus) ; when several similar things proceed from a common 



point ; as the leaves of the Larch, for example. 



14. Distichous (distichux, bifarius) ; when things are arranged in two rows, 



the one opposite to the other ; as the florets of many Grasses. 



1 5. In rows (serialis) ; arranged in rows which are not necessarily opposite each 

 other : biserialis, in two rows ; tris&'ialis, in three rows : but these are 

 seldom used. In their stead, we generally add fai~iam to the end of a Latin 

 numeral : thus, bifariam means in two rows ; trifariam in three rows ; and 



16. One-sided (unilateralis, secundux); arranged on, or turned towards, one side 

 only ; as the flowers of Antholyza. 



