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GLOSSOLOGY. 
BOOK III. 
The following excellent Table of Abbreviations was con- 
trived by the late Mr. Ferdinand Bauer, to express all the 
subjects for which illustrations are required in botanical 
drawings. It is much to be regretted that these abbrevia- 
tions, which are in every way unexceptionable, are not uni- 
versally adopted for references to plates : they would not only 
form a common means of comparison between the figures of 
different authors, but would also keep continually within the 
view of artists the nature of the subjects they are employed 
to analyse. It may be added that the Table, if considered 
without reference to the abbreviations, is in itself an excellent 
sketch of the principal modes, degrees, and analogies of the 
regular morphosis, or developement, of fructification. When 
the letters used are capitals, they indicate that the object is 
magnified ; when small, that it is of the natural size ; when 
with a score ( — ) drawn beneath them, that it is less than the 
natural size. 
a. A flower before expansion, 
a 1. A flower expanded. 
b. The operculum of a flower ; generally formed by the con- 
fluence of the calyx and corolla. 
c. The perianthium ; the floral integument of monocotyle- 
donous plants, and the generally simple one of dicoty- 
ledones. (Corolla of Linnaeus ; calyx of Jussieu.) 
c 1. External leaflets of the perianthium ; having generally the 
nature of a calyx. (Calyx of Linnaeus.) 
c 2. Internal leaflets of the perianthium, except c 3. and c 4-. ; 
having usually the texture of petals. (Corolla of Lin- 
naeus.) 
c 3. The labellum, or its appendages. In Orchideae. 
c 4. The hypogynous scales of grasses. (Nectarium of Lin- 
naeus.) 
c 4. Appendages of the perianthium. 
d. The calyx. 
e. A monopetalous corolla, 
e L Petals. 
e 2. Appendages of the corolla. (Nectarium of Linnaeus ; pa- 
rapetala of Ehrhart.) 
f. The discus, whether hypogynous or epigynous. 
f I. Scales or glands, whether hypogynous or epigynous. 
