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130. Crowded, (conferta s. approximata), -when 
the leaves stand so close together that the stem can- 
not be seen. | 
131. Remote, (remota), when the leaves are se- 
parated on the stem by certain interstices. | 
182. Three together, (éerna), when three leaves 
stand round the stem: there are sometimes four, 
five, six, seven, eight, &c. guaferna, quina, sena, 
septena, octona, &c. | 
133. Star-like, (stellata s. werticillata), when seve- 
ral leaves stand round the stem at certain at 
as in ladies bed-ftraw; Galium, &c. fig. 
134, Tufted, (fasciculata), when a ee of 
leaves stand on one point, as in the larch, Pinus 
Jarix, Celastrus buwifolius, fig.. 14. 
135. Two rowed, (disticha), when leaves are so 
placed on the stem that they stand on one plane, as 
in the pitch fir, Pinus picea, Lonicera symphoricarpos. 
136. Decussated, (decussata), when the stem its 
whole length is set round with four rows of leaves, 
and at del branch, when one looks perpendicularly 
down upon it, the leaves seem to form a cross, as in 
Veronica decussata. | 
137. Imbricated, (imbricata), when one leaf lies 
over another as the tiles upon a roof, fig. 229. Of 
this there are the following kinds. 
a, Bifariously: ii enteds (bifariam imbricata), 
when the leaves are ‘so laid upon one ancther 
that they form but two rows longitudinally 
on the stem. 
B. eee imbricata, three rows. 
» Quadrifariam imbricata, © ec. four rows, &c. 
FF. In 
