TABLE VI. 497 



■525 Uniflora, one-flowered, when it embraces one flower. 



526 Multiflora, many -flowered, when it includes many flowers. 



527 Univalvis, one-valvcd, when there is constantly but one scale. 



528 Bivalvis, two~valved, when there are two valves. 



529 Multivalvis, muny-valved, when there are many scales, or 



more than two. 



530 Color at a (219), coloured. 



531 Glabra (216), smooth. 



532 Hispida (243), hispid, covered with hard hairs. 



533 Mutica, blunt, without point, or arista. 



534 Arista, a heard, growing on the husk. 



535 Terminalis, terminal, fixed to the top of the husk, 



536 Dorsalis, dorsal, fixed on the outside of the husk. 



537 Recta, straight, growing perpendicular.- 



538 Tortilis, twisted. 



539 Geniculata (43), jointed. 



540 Recurvata (139), recurved. 



541 Amentum (635), a catkin, or ament, proceeding from a 



common receptacle, resembling the chafFof corn. 



542 Spatha, a sheath, a kind of cup bursting out lengthwise. 



543 Univalvis, of one valve, opening on one side. 



544 Dimidiata, dimidiate, halved, the inner one covering the 



fructification on one side, and the outer one on the other. 



545 Calyptra, a veil, or hood, covering the antherae, in mosses. 



546 Recta, straight, every where equal. 



547 Obliqua, oblique, bent on- one side. 



548 Volva, a membranaceous calyx belonging to the fungi. 



549 Approximata, approximate, close to the head. 



550 Remota, remote, at some distance from the head. 



551 Corolla, the termination of the inner bark, present in the 



flower. 



552 Petalum, a petal, a part of the corolla when divided into 



many. 



553 Tubus, a tube, the lower part of a flower, with one petal. 



554 Unguis, a claw, the lower part of a polypetalous flower, by 



which it is fixed to the receptacle. 



555 Limbus, limb, the upper part of a monopetalous corolla, 



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