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6. Duration. 
Once-fruiting, Plante monocarpice. Bearing fruit only 
once in their life. 
1. Ephemeral, ephemere, fugaces. Lasting only a few 
days, or even hours. Tremella, many fungi. 
2, Annual, annue. Lasting near a whole summer. 
Hordeum. ) 
3. Biennial, liennes. Producing leaves only the first 
year, and flowers and fruit in the succeeding. Verbascum 
decurrens, CEnothera biennis. 
4. Slow growing, perennes. Being several years before 
they flower, and dying soon after. Agave. 
Many-fruiting, polycarpice. Bearing fruit several times 
during their life. . 
_ 1. Perennial, perennes, restibilia, rhixocarpice. Dying 
down to the ground every year, and in the following pro- 
ducing new flowering stems. Aster. 
2. Arborescent, cawlocarpice, fruticose. The stem itself 
lasts during the life of the plant. ‘Trees, shrubs. 
7. Mode of production. 
Seed-bearing, Plante seminifere. Bearing seeds. Most 
plants. 
Gongyliferous, gongylifere. Bearing gongyles or spores. 
Mosses, Algz. 
~ Stool-bearing, Stolonifere. ‘Throwing out stools, stolones, 
which take root. Pilosella. 
Runner-bearing, viticulose. Throwing out runners, 
viticule, sarmenia, or fiagella, which take root from space 
to space. 
Shoot-bearing, surculifere. Throwing out shoots, sur- 
culi, from the crown of the root, which may be separated, 
and will then produce a new plant. Oliva europea. 
Propaculifere. Throwing out a shoot terminating by a 
leaf-bud, which, when separated from the original plant, 
will grow. Sempervivum. ? 
Bulbous, lalbose. Furnished with a bulb, under ground, 
Pagiene up leaves anda stem. Lilium, Tulipa, Allium, 
epa. 
Bulbilliferous, bullillifere, sobolifere. Producing small 
bulbs, bulbilli, propagines, bacilli, soboles, sautella, on the 
axille of their branches, or leaves, or elsewhere, above 
wround, Crinum bulbiferum, Allium. 
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