BOTANIC TERMS. 371 



420 Erectus (130) upright. 



421 Patens (134) spreading. 



422 Cernuus, the point looking downwards. 



423 Resiipinatus (144) looking upwards. 



424 Declinatus (34) bent downwards archways. 



425 Nutans (36) nodding, hanging downwards. 



426 Flaccidus, slender, weak, when the weight of a proper 



flower makes it hang downwards. 



427 Ascendens (33) rising upwards archwise. 



428 Pendulus, hanging loose. 



429 Strictus (29) straight. 



430 Flexuosus, bending from one flower to another. 



431 Retrofractus, bent backward and forward, as if broken. 



432 Uniflorus, biflorus, triflorus, &c. multiflorus, one flower, 



two flowers, three flowers, &c. many flowers accord- 

 ing to the number of flowers growing on the foot- 

 stalk. 



STRUCTURE. 



433 Teres (47) round like a cylinder. 



434 Triqueter (52) three-sided. 



435 Tetragonus (53) four-angled. 



436 Filiformis, thread-shaped, everywhere of equal thickness, 



437 Attenuatus, lessening gradually in thickness towards the 



point. 



438 Clavatus, clubbed, thick towards the point (299.) 



439 Incrassatus, gradually thickening upwards. . 



440 Nudus (215) naked. 



441 Squamosus (58) scaly. 



442 Foliatus (56) leafy. 



443 Bracteatus (295) furnished with floral leaves. 



444 Geniculatus (43) jointed. 



445 Articulatus (84) knotted. 



1NFLORESCENTIA, INFLORESCENCE ; (vid. p. 158.) 



Is the Manner by which Flowers are joined to the Plant by 

 the Peduncle or Footstalk. 



446 Verticillus, whorled, many flowers growing round the 



stalk in a circle. 



447 Sessilis, squat, without any manifest foot- 

 stalk. 



448 .. Pedunculatus, with a peduncle elevating the 



flowers. 



449 Nudus (450, 451) opposite to the following. 



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