CLASS I. 
INDIVIDUAL TERMS. 
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those are entirely omitted which are used in Botany in their 
common acceptation. 
CH ARACTEIITSTIC TERMS are either Individual or Collective. 
Characteristic Individual Terms are either Absolute or Relative. 
Characteristic Individual Absolute Terms relate to, — 
1 . Figure. 
A. with respect to general form. 
B. outline. 
C. the apex or point. 
2. Division. 
A. with respect to the margin. 
B. incision. 
C. composition or ramification. 
3. Surface. 
A. with respect to marking or evenness. 
B. appendages. 
C. polish. 
4. Texture. 
5. Size, -v' /' , ,, 
6. Duration. ¥ / 
7. Colour. 
8. Variegation. 
9. Veining. 
Characteristic Individual Relative Terms comprehend, — 
1 . Estivation. 
2. Direction. 
3. Insertion, 
A. with respect to the mode of attachment or of adhesion. 
B. situation. 
Characteristic Collective Terms relate to, — 
1. Arrangement. 
2. Number. 
Class I. Of Individual Terms. 
The terms which are included in this class are applied to the 
parts of a plant considered by themselves, and not in masses : 
they are either absolute^ being used with reference to their 
own individual quality ; or relative^ being employed to ex- 
press the relation which is borne by plants, or their parts, 
to some other body. Thus, for example, when we say that a 
plant has a lateral ovate spike of flowers, the term lateral is 
relative, being used to express the relation which the spike 
bears to the stem; and the term ovate is absolute, being 
