PLANT NAMES 



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cases the auxiliary word is used in both ways, then 

 it has the stroke both before and after. In the case 

 of terminations which are Latin or Latinized adjec- 

 tives the last letters are omitted, as they vary with 

 the gender of the genus. Thus acanth- may be 

 either acanthtis, acantha, or acanthum ; glab- may be 

 glaber, glabra, or glabrum ; grand- may be grandis or 

 grande. 



Various forms of the same word are sometimes 

 met with; thus crenatus and crenulatus, fulvus and 

 fulvidus, CBstivus and cBstivalis, foliosus and folio- 

 losus. In such cases the simplest form is given. 



