80 INTRODUCTION TO BOTANY. 
Three-forked, érichotomus. Divided and subdivided into 
secondary, &c. leafstalks by being split each time into 
three. Epimedium alpinum. PI.6, fig. 1. 
{| Tendril-bearing, cirriferus. Bearing tendrils. Smilax 
-horrida. PI. 8, fig. 2. 
Tendril-like, cirriformis. ‘Twining like a tendril. Fu- 
maria capreolata, Clematis orientalis. PI. 6, fig. 14. 
Stipuled, stipuliferus. Leafstalk, or the primary leaf- 
stalk, if compound, furnished at the bottom with stipules. 
Rosa, Ononis, Mespilus Germanica, Oxalis corniculata. 
Stipellated, stipellati. Secondary, &c. leafstalks fur- 
nished at their base with small stipules. 
Gland-bearing, glanduliferus. Furnished with glands. 
Opulus palustris, Prunus. 
Margined, winged, marginatus, alatus. Furnished with 
expansions on the sides. Pisum Ochrus, Citrus Aurantium. 
Sheathing, vaginans. Forming a sheath round the 
stem or scape. Graminez, Cyperacee, Umbelliferee. PI. 4, 
fig. 1. 
”Convolute, convolutus. Resembling a lamina rolled 
round the stalk. Graminez. 
Tubular, éululatus. Forming a tube sheathing the stem. 
Cyperacez. 
Inflated, izflatus. Hollow and swelling. ‘Trapa natans. 
Locular, doculosus. Hollow and divided by partitions. 
Eryngium corniculatum. 
Thorned, spinescens. Ending in a thorn. Robinia 
Halodendron. 
Beside these characters, it is necessary to attend to the 
form of the leafstalk, whether cylindrical, clubshape, 
rooved, compressed, depressed; to its length compared 
with that of the leaf; and to its length in respect to our 
common measures. 
LIGULE. 
Ligula, Collare. A membranous appendage surmounting 
the sheathing petiole, at the junction between the sheath 
and the blade of the leaf. 
Uncut, Ligula integra. Poa pratensis. 
Cleft, jissa. Phleum crinitum. 
Torn, lacera. Milium lentigerum. 
Fringed, ciliata. Holcus Janatus. 
Truncated, éruncata. Avena fatua. 
Acuminated, acuminata. Phalaris paradoxa. 
Scalelike, squamiformis.. Poaarenosa. Pl. 4, fig. 1. 
