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SuckERs. 
Haustoria. Tubercles placed on the stem, fastening it 
to another plant, and also serving to extract nourishment 
from the supporting plant. Cuscuta. 
Ho.prasts. 
Fulcra. Tubercles serving to fasten a plant to other 
bodies, but not organized so as to extract nourishment from 
the support. Hedera communis, Fucus. 
FLOWER. 
Flies, in composition, —anthos. A temporary fart of a 
vegetable, tn which the fecundation of the ovules take place; 
and which consists essentially of the sexual organs. 
1. Siduaiton. 
Root, Flores radicales. Proceeding from the crown of 
the root. Colchicum autumnale, Primula, Bellis, Sarra- 
cenia purpurea. PI1.8, fig. 5, b. 
Stem, caulinares. Proceeding from the stem. Cuscuta, 
Vicia sativa. 
Branch, rameales. Upon the branches. Daphne florida, 
Cucubalus bacciferus, Pyrus. 
Terminal, ferminales. From the tip of the stem and 
branches. Pneumonanthe vulgaris, Eremocallis glomerata, 
Pastinaca. ; 
Leaf, foliares. Upon the leaves. Xylophylla montana, 
Ruscus aculeatus. PI. 8, fig. 3. 
Petiolar, petiolares. Upon the footstalks of the leaves. 
Hibiscus moschatus. - . 
Axillary, azillares. From the arille, or angles made by 
the leaves with the stem or branches. Polygonatum vulgare, 
Veronica fontinalis, Chamedrys officinalis, Stramonium 
foctidum, Vinca, Spartium scoparium, Vicia sativa. 
Extra-axillary, extra-arillares, laterales. Growing on 
the outside of the axille. Solanum nigrum, Physalis, 
Capsicum. 
. Super-axillary, superaxillares. Growing above the axille 
of the leaves. Boraginez. ; 
Opposite to the leaves, oppositifoli. Growing from a 
point diametrically opposite to the setting on of the leaf. 
Duleamara fiexuosa, Sium nodiflorum, Tordylium maxi- 
mum, Phellandrium divaricatum, Batrachium heterophyl- 
lum, Erodium cicutarium, Vitis vinifera. 
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