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Hite. 
Eye of the seed, Base of the seed, Hilum, Hylus, Umbi- 
licus, Cicatricula, Fenestra. 4 scar upon the surface of the 
outer skin of the seed, which shows the point by which the 
umbilical cord fastened the seed to the mother-plant. 
The hile is frequently placed in the middle of a spot, 
hollow, or elevation, and in describing plants this spot, &c. 
is included in the signification of the word hile. 
Dotlike, Hilum punctiforme. Cruciferee. 
Linear, lineare. Long, narrow, with the sides parallel. 
Faba. 
Line-like, /ineolare. Resembling a plain stroke. Com- 
melina communis. 
Orbicular, orbiculare. AXséulus. 
Elliptic, ellipticum. Phaseolus. 
Heartshape, cordiforme. Areca, Cardiospermum. 
Convex, convexum. A4sculus. 
Concave, concavum. Cyclamen vernum. 
Strophiolate, sérophiolatum. Composed of a row or rows 
of tubercles. Polygaleze. 
Comose, comosum. Woolly, Polygaleze. ~ 
Ambiguous, amliguum. Corresponding at the same time 
to the two ends of a bent or folded seed. 
OMPHALODE. 
Omphalodium. 4 protuberant point, usually placed in 
the middle of the cicatrix, where the nutrimental vessels en- 
tered the seed. 
FoRAMEN. 
Micropyla. A point near the hile, which appears to be 
the place where the fecundating vessels entered the seed. 
SPILE. 
Spilus. 4 small spot under the first cover of the fruit of 
the graminee at the internal base, which appears to be the 
real umbilicus or point where the vessels of the pericarpium 
enter the spermoderme, which is closely united with the peri- 
carp. 
PROSTYPE. 
Prostypum, Prostypum funiculare. 4 slight elevation 
on the surface of the seed-covers, formed by the internal 
_ elongation of the vessels of the umbilical cord. 
