36 OBJECT LESSONS IN BOTANY. 



tlie Elm, Cherry, Willow, and many other plants. But it 

 would be more accurate to say that the arrangement, in all 

 these cases, is spiral. (See Class Book, § 224.) 



89 90 91 



Fig. 89. Lady's-sUpper (Gypnpedium), — leaves alternate. 



Fig. 90. Synandra, — leaves opposite. 



Fig. 91. Larch (Larix Americana), — leaves fasciculate. 



Fig. 92. Indian Cucumber {Medeola), — leaves whorled. 



50. In the Maple, Lilac, Phlox, and in this figure of the 

 Synandra (90), a wild western plant, the leaves are opposite ; 

 that is, two opposite ones stand at each joint. The Meadow 

 Lily, and this Medeola (Fig. 92) of the New England woods, 

 have whorled or verticillate leaves ; that is, several in a circle 

 at each joint. Again, look at this Larch (Fig. 91), the Pines, 

 &c., whose leaves, gathered in little tufts or bundles, are 

 fasciculate. 



50. Define the opposite arrangement. The whorled ; fiisciculate. 



