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MOSSKS WITH A I1AND-LKNS 



7. 



Circinate, curved into a circle, resembling 

 Fig. 2, but still more incurved, so that the apex 

 is nearly or quite bent around to the leaf base ; 

 e g., leaves of HyPnitm uncinatum. 



Cirrate or cirrhate, applied to leaves which 

 curl up in drying. Cirrate leaves are more reg- 

 ularly curled than crispate leaves. 



Cirrhose, having a wavy hair point. 

 Cochleariform, rounded and concave like a 

 spoon or ladle. 



Complicate, folded together. 

 Costa, the nerve or midrib of a moss leaf. 

 Costate, having a costa. 



Crispate or crisped, frizzled, curled and 

 twisted in various ways. (Fig. 5.) 



Citcullate, hood-shaped, the apex curved in 

 like a slipper. (Apex of leaf in Fig. 6 ) 



Cultriform, curved like a short, wide scimi- 

 tar ; e. g. , the leaves of Homalia trichomanoides 

 James ii. 



Cymbiform, boat- shaped (used by Dixon as a 

 synonym of cucullate); e. g., leaves of Sphagnum 

 cymbifolium. (The whole leaf in Fig. 6 ) 



Dorsal, belonging to or on the back ; /. e. , the 

 face of a leaf remote from the stem. 

 Ecostate, lacking a costa. 



Excurrent costa, a costa running out beyond the 

 lamina of a leaf. (Fig. 7.) 



Excavate, (leaf-insertion) hollowed out in a 

 curve. 



Falcate, curved like a sickle. (Fig. 2 ) 

 Flexuose, bent backwards and forwards, or wavy. 

 Hamate, or hamulose, curved like a hook; more 

 sharply and abruptly curved than in falcate and 

 c ire in ate. 



Heteromallous, (leaves or branches) turned in 

 different directions. 



Homomallous, turned in .the same direction. 

 Imbricated, closely overlapping each other like 

 the tiles of a roof. (Fig. 8.) 



