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flower; biforked, or consisting of two divi- 

 sions, to bear pairs or twin flowers ; branching, 

 or divided into three or more pedicelli ; corym- 

 biform, to bear clusters or bouquets. It is 

 sometimes thickened towards the calyx, some- 

 times equal; sometimes hairy, sometimes na- 

 ked ; sometimes short, sometimes long ; some- 

 times erect, sometimes drooping. In point of 

 pubescence it is sometimes smooth, sometimes 

 hairy, cottonous, bristly, prickly, or scaly; and 

 partakes of the same characters as the tube of 

 the calyx. The pedicelli, or branches of the 

 flower-stalk, are to be studied under the same 

 heads as the peduncle. 



BBACTEAL LEAVES. Bracteal or floral leaves 

 are the leaflets, differing in form and even co- 

 lour from the leaves of the shrub which accom- 

 pany the flower, and spring from the peduncle, 

 or flower-stalk. When they exist, the peduncle 

 is termed bracteated ; they are sometimes deci- 

 duous and perish after the flowering, sometimes 

 permanent. 



When long, narrow, and pointed from a wider 

 base, they are termed awl-shaped ; when very 

 pointed, needle-shaped; lanceolated when in 

 the form of a lance, cordiform when in the 

 shape of a heart, pectinated when edged like 

 the teeth of a comb, long, narrow, wide, 

 elliptic, &c. They are smooth, hairy, or glan- 



