CLASS II. 
COLLECTIVE TERMS. 
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1. Opposite (oppositus) ; placed on opposite sides of some other 
body or thing on the same plane. Thus, when leaves are 
opposite, they are on opposite sides of the stem ; when petals 
are opposite, they are on opposite sides of the ovary; and 
so on. 
2. Alternate (alternus) ; placed alternately one above the other 
on some common body, as leaves upon the stem. 
3. Stellate {stellatus, stelliformis, stellulatus) \ the same as ver- 
ticillate, No. 4., except that the parts are narrow and 
acute. 
4. Whorled (yerticillatus) ; when several things are in opposition 
round a common axis, as some leaves round their stem ; sepals, 
petals, and stamens round the ovarium, &c. 
5. Ternate (ternus) ; when three things are in opposition round 
a common axis. 
6. Loose (laxus) ; when the parts are distant from each other, * 
with an open, light kind of arrangement ; as the panicle 
among the other kinds of inflorescence. 
7. Scattered (sparsus) ; used in opposition to whorled, or oppo- 
site, or ternate, or other such terms. 
8. Compound (compositus) ; when formed of several parts 
united in one common w^hole ; as pinnated leaves, all kinds of 
inflorescence beyond that of the solitary flower. 
9. Crowded (confertus) ; when the parts are pressed closely 
round about each other. 
10. Imbricated (zm^Wca^t^.s) ; when parts lie over each other in 
regular order, like tiles upon the roof of a house ; as the 
scales upon the cup of some acorns. 
11. Rosulate {rosulatus^ rosularis)\ when parts which are not 
opposite, nevertheless become apparently so by the con- 
traction of the joints of the stem, and lie packed closely over 
each other, like the petals in a double rose ; as in the offsets 
of houseleek. 
12. Caespitose (ccBspitosus) ; forming dense patches, or turfs; as 
the young stems of many plants. 
13. Fascicled {fusciculatus) ; when several similar thing^s pro- 
ceed from a common point ; as the leaves of the larch, for 
example. 
14. Distichous (distichus, bifarius) ; when things are arranged in 
two rows, the one opposite to the other ; as the florets of 
many grasses. 
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