14 TRUNKS. 



VI. Surface. 



1. SMOOTH, (glaber} destitute of hairs, glands, or any 

 particular excrescences. 



2. POLISHED, (/ords) the surface being every where 

 equal and smooth. 



3. SHINING, (nitidus) polished ; smooth, and shining. 



4. VISCID, (viscidus) covered with a clammy juice. 



5. WARTY, (verrucosus.} Ex. Enonymous verru- 

 cosus. 



6. PAPiLLosE,(|;api#0sws) covered with soft tubercles, 

 Ex. Ice plant, Mesembryanthemum crystallinum, 



7. SCABROUS, (scabe-r) rough to the touch, from 

 any little rigid inequalities. Ex. Centaurea nigra. 



8. BRISTLY, (hispidus.) Ex. Borage, JBorago qffi- 

 cinalis. 



9. HAIRY, (hirtus or pilosus.*) Ex. Common Cin- 

 quefoil, Potentilla simplex. 



10. DOWNY^ (tonientosus) very soft to the touch 

 from soft feeble hairs so interlaced with each other 

 that each hair connot be separately distinguished. 



1 1. SHAGGY, (yiUosus^) covered >vith long soft hairs. 



12. WOOLLY, (lanatus.*) Ex. Common Mullein, Ver- 

 bascum Thapsus. 



13. HOARY, (incanus) appearing as if frosted. Ex. 

 "Wormwood, Artemisia absinthium, and Mriplex portulac- 

 oides ; in the former case from close silky hairs, in 

 the latter from a kind of scaly mealiness. 



14. MEALY, (glamcus) clothed with fine sea-green 

 mealiness which easily rubs off. Ex. Common Black 

 Raspberry, lliibus occidentalis. 



15. STRIATED, (striatus) marked with fine parallel 

 longitudinal lines. Ex. Conium maculatum. 



16. FURROWED, (sulcatus) lines somewhat deeper 

 and broader than the last. Ex. Hogweed, Chenopodium 

 album. 



} 7. SPOTTED, (maculatusJ) Ex. Hemlock, Conium 

 maculatum. 



The spines and prickles of the stem will be described 

 under Arms of plants. 



