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CLAVIS ANGLICA 

 LINGUA BOTANIC^. 



ABBREVIATUM Perlanthium, when 

 the Perianthium is fliorter than the tube 

 of the Corolla, oppofcd to Longum ; 

 £xenipUfied in the Pulmonar'ia marithna, 



ABORTIENS Fks, a term ufed by former 

 botanifts ; Steriiis of Tournefort ; Mafculus of 

 Linnseus ; Paleaceus of Ray. See Mafculus. Bv • 

 Abortiens, Steriiis, &c, former botanifts meant 

 fuch' flowers as produced no frait. Linnseus, 

 finding this to be generally owing to their being 

 male flowers, changed the term to mafculus ; 

 but in the clafs Dioecia it will often be the cafe 

 with female flowers, if they have no male near. 

 See Phil. Tranf. vol. 47. p. 1 69. 



ABRUPTUM Folium pinnatum [ex abrum- 

 A por. 



