48 PRINCIPLES OF BOTANY, ETC. 
2. Abiding, (persistentes), when they fall or 
wither along with the leaves, or after them*. 
§ 28. 
The RAMENT (ramentum), is a small, often bristle- 
shaped leafet, that is oblong, thin, and more or less 
ef a brown colour; sometimes placed, like the sti- 
pula, in the angles of the petiole, but sometimes like- 
wise, without any order, on the stem. It ap- 
pears on all trees when their buds open, and falls 
soon after. On the oak, fig. 289. it stands like the 
stipulz ; on the Scots fir, Pinus sy/vestris, it | Is soon 
eee. 
When the stem of a plant is covered with fine 
dry scales, that have the appearance of the Ramen: 
tum, it is properly called a ramentaceous stem, (cau- 
lis ramentaceus ). 
§ 29. 
The FLORAL LEAVES, (Gractee@), are leaves that 
tand near or between the flowers, and in general 
are of a different shape and colour from the other 
leaves, fig. 33, 44, ‘They differ in respect of dura- 
tion like the stipulze, that is, they are either cadu- 
* In form, the stipule are very different, and what we have 
said with regard to that of the proper leaves may be applied 
to them, i in respect of outline, apex, base, margin and sur- 
face. ‘They are in general sessile, (sessz/es), seldom connate, 
(connatae), and still seldomer petiolated, (petio/atae s. pedicel- 
fatae). They are often marked with a dark brown spot, as in 
Vicia sativa, and then they are called sphace/atae. 
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