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GLOSSOLOGY. 
BOOK III. 
those are entirely omitted which are used in Botany in their 
common acceptation. 
CHARACTERISTIC TERMS are either Individual or Collective. 
Characteristic I NDiviDUAL Terms are either Absolute or Relative. 
Characteristic Individual Absolute Terms relate to, — 
1. Figure. 
A. with respect to general form. 
B. outline. 
C. the apex or point. 
2. Division. 
A. With respect to the margin. 
B. incision. 
C. composition or ramification, 
f^. Surface. 
A. With respect to marking or evenness. 
B. appendages. 
C. polish. 
4. Texture. 
5. Size. 
6. Duration. 
7. Colour. 
8. Variegatioti. 
9. Veining. 
Characteristic Individual Relative Terms comprehend, — 
1 . Estivation, 
2. Direction. 
3. Insertion. 
A. with respect to the mode of attachment or of adhesion. 
B. situation. 
Characteristic Collective Terms relate to, — 
1. Arrangement. 
2. Number. 
Class I. Or Individual Terms. 
The terms which are inckided in this class are applied to the 
parts of a plant considered by themselves, and not in masses : 
they are either absolute, being used with reference to their 
own individual quality; or relative, being employed to ex- 
press the relation which is borne by plants, or their parts, 
to some other body. Thus, for example, when we say that a 
plant has a lateral ovate spike of flowers, the term lateral is 
relative, being used to express the relation which the spike 
bears to the stem ; and the term ovate is absolute, being 
