D E 



DECURSiVE Folium pinnatum ^^decwro, to 

 run along} when the bafes of the foliola are 

 continued along the fides of the petiolus, as they 

 are along the ilem in the folium decurrem, 



DECUSSATA Folia Idecujfo, to divide] 

 when the leaves grow in hairs and oppofite, 

 each hair being alternately on oppofite fides of 

 the flem ; ut ft plant a vcrticjallter irfpiciatur t folia 

 qucldrfariam vergunt, 



DEF[.EXUS Ramus [dcfcdo, to bow or 

 bend] a little bent ; the leafi: degree of curva- 

 ture. See RefexuSy Retrojlexus. 



DEFLORATIA Stambia, having flied, or 

 difcharged, their farina fccundens. Stachys, 

 ftamina def.orata verl'us latera reliexa. 



DEFOLIATIO {de & foliimr^ comprehends 

 the prcclfe time in autumn when a plant fheds 

 its leaves. 



DELTOIDES Folium [A, delta, the Greek 

 D]. Certainly this A has but three angles, and 

 yet Linnteus infills upon his folium deltoides ha- 

 ving f(jur, rbcr.ibeum ex quatuor angulis, e quibus 

 latcrales acinus a baft dijlant qumn reliqui, the two 

 lateral angles nearer the bails than the other 



two. 



