TABLE VI. 



DEFINITIONS 



OF 



THE BOTANIC TERMS, 



IN LATIN AND ENGLISH, 



iFROM THE TERMINI BOTANICI OF LINNiEUS. 



Consisting of the various Kinds of Roots, Trunks, Branches, 

 Leaves, and Fructification, &c. in their natural Arrange- 

 ment*. 



RADIX, THE ROOT, 



An Organ by ivhick a Plant receives its Nourishment, 



I. Duration. 



1 ANNUA, annual, that dies in one year. 



2 Biennis, biennial, that dies in the space of two years. 



3 Perennis, perennial, that regerminates several years suc- 



cessively. 



H. Figure. 



4 Fibrosa, fibrous, consisting entirely of filaments. 



5 Ramosa, ramous, subdivided into branchy fibres. 



6 Fusiformis, spindle-shaped, simple, and gradually lessening 



downward. 



* The reader will find in Doctor Thornton's " Elementary Botanical Plates," a 

 number of very excellent plates, explanatory of the definitions of the science, which 

 may be consulted together with our plates. 



