116 ‘ INTRODUCTION TO BOTANY. 
BRACTER. 
Leaf-like organs accompanying the flowers. 
| Frorat Lear. 
Bractea. Teaf-like organs, placed near the- flowers, and 
frequently very slightly differing from the common leaves. 
Rounded, Bractea subrotunda. Salix viminalis. 
Heartshape, cordiformis, cordata. Melampyrum crista- 
tum, Salvia pratensis, S. bicolor, Lactuca virosa. 
Spearshape, lanceolata. Orchis morio, O. mascula, 
Orobanche major, Melampyrum arvense, Mentha rotundi- 
folia, Ribes alpina. 
Awlshape, sululata. Cephalanthera ensifolia. 
Bristlelike, setacea. Mentha viridis. 
- Keeled, carinata. Gomphrena globosa. 
Fringed, ciliata. Mentha viridis, Calamintha vulgaris, 
Brunella vulgaris, Carpinus ulmoides. 
Thornlike, spinescens. Salsola decumbens. 
Palmate, palmata. Fumaria bulbosa, Anthyllis vulne- 
raria. 
Feather-cut, pinnatijida. Melampyrum vulgatum. 
Comblike, pectinata. Melampyrum cristatum. 
€| Crowning, coronans. Forming a crown above the 
flowers. Fritillaria imperialis, Kucomis regia. . 
Coloured, colerata. Melampyrum cristatum, Salvia ne- 
morosa. 
Flower-bearing, florifera. Bearing the flowers. Populus, 
: : 2) 
Corylus, Salix, Larix, Cupressus. Pl. 7, fig. 6. 
BRACTEOLE. 
Bracteole. Smaller floral leaves attached to the divisions of 
an assemblage of flowers. 
‘ Tur. 
Coma. An assemblage of floral leaves crowning the tip of 
some spikes or racemes.—Salvia Horminum. 
SPATHE. 
Spatha, Calopodium, Valva. 4: leaflike organ, which at 
Jirst envelopes the flowers, but afterwards opens and lets 
them escape. 
Common, Spatha communis. Enclosing seyeral flowers. 
Arum, Phoenix. 
