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la, especially when it is bent back, (§ 75, No, 1—11). 
The limbus is often dentated or deeply divided, and 
the divisions are called, 
3. Segments or lobes, (dacinia s. lobi), and they 
are denominated according to their figure, number, 
and situation. | 
4, The helmet, (galea), 1s the upper arched la- 
emia of a ringent or masked corolla, which is fur- 
ther denominated according to its situation, figure, 
and segments or laciniz. 
5. The gape, (rictus), 1s, in ringent flowers, the 
space between the two extremities of the helmet and 
the under lip. | 
6. The throat, (faux), in a monopetalous and 
vingent corolla, is the opening of the tube. | 
7. The palate, (palatum), in a personate corolla ts 
the arch of the under lip which is so elevated as to 
close the faux. 
8. The beard, (darba s. labellum), is the under iip 
of a ringent and persenate corolla. 
9, The lips, (labia), m the bilabiate and unila- 
biate flowers, are the two divisions, the one called 
the upper lip, (/abium superius), and the other the 
under lip, (/abium inferius), ‘The galea and barba 
are likewise by some botanists called lips. 
§ 78. 
We have already said (§ 74), that the particular 
pieces of which the Corolla consists are called petals, 
(petala). In each petal the following parts are to be 
remarked. 
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