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duration ; fee Caducum : falling off with tHc 

 llower. 



DcclduiS St'ipulce, as in the Padus, Csrafus, 

 A7nygdalus'^ Popidus, Tilia, U!//rus, ^urcus^ Fa- 

 gus, Jlnus, Ficzis, Morns. 



Decidims Calyx, as in the Bsrbeiis, and the 

 clafs Tetradynamla. 



DECLiNATUS CauUs, declined. The 

 firft and leaft degree of curvature towards the' 

 earth. See Incurvatus and Nutans. 



DECOMPOSITA FMa, are thofe com- 

 pound leaves which confift of m3.ny folhla on a- 

 once-divided psiiolus, ctan petiolus femel dlvifus ad- 

 neSlit folida phtra. ?:>t& Compofihvn fuUim. The 

 different kinds of Folia decompoftta, are bigsmuia^^ 

 hiternata^ bip'nniata, which fee. 



DECUMBliNS /^i Idecumho, to he down]' 

 drooping, as in CaJJia, Dladdphia omni. 



DECURRENS Folium {(leciirro, to rim a-- 

 long] when the bafa of a fcffile leaf extends 

 downward along the caulis., belov.' the proper 

 termination of the leaf ; /. e, when the bofis is 

 long in proportion to the leaf, and adheres en- 

 tirely to the rtem, as in the Verhejfina, Carduus, 

 Sphcsranthw, VerbaUu??! ihapfus. 



