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Jointed, articulatus. Composed of joints, placed end to 
end. ‘Triticum, Secale, Hordeum, Lolium, alone 
Vertebrated, vertebratus. Jointed, and the joints easily 
separating from one another when the seed is ripe. Adgilops 
ovata. 
_ Toothed, dentatus. Jointed, the joints bearing alternately 
to the right and left, and leaving between each a shelf on 
which the flowers are affixed. ‘Triticum, Lolium, 
{| Membranaceous, membranaceus. Paspalum membra- 
naceum. 
Fleshy, carnosus. Bromelia, Ananas, Musa. 
COMPOUND FLOWERS. 
1. CaATKIN. 
Amentum, Catulus, Julus, Nucamentum. The flowers borne 
upon bractee which are themselves borne upon an axis. 
Male, Amentum masculum. Waving only male flowers. 
Betula, Taxus, Corylus. 
Female, faemineum. Betula, Taxus, Corylus. 
{ Simple, simplex. The flowerbearing bracteze are borne 
immediately on the axis. Populus, Salix. PI. 7, fig. 5 and 6. 
Compound, compositum. ‘The flowerbearing bractez are 
borne upon short branches springing from the axis. Jug- 
lans regia. 
q Single, solitarium. Betula alba, Cedrus, Larix, Salix, 
Capreea. 
Grouped together, agglomeratum. Male flowers of pinus 
sylvestris, P. maritima. 
q Globular, spherical, globosum, sphericum, globulosum. 
Platanus, Male flowers of taxus communis. ' 
Egeshape, ovoideum, ovatum. Female flowers of larix, 
cedrus, alnus glutinosa, salix capreea. | 
Cylindrical, cylindricum. Male flowers of fagus sylva- 
tica, corylus sylvestris, betula alba, juglans regia. 
q Slender, gracile. Male flowers of fagus pumila, salix 
alba. . 
Thick, crassum. Male flowers of juglans regia, salix 
caprea. 
Growing narrower, altenuatum. Diminishing in thick- 
ness towards the end. Castanea vesca. 
{| Compact, compactum. Axis covered with flowers quite 
close to each other. Betula, Platanus, Salix capreea. 
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