CLASS I. 
INDIVIDUAL ABSOLUTE TERMS. 
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8. Pointleted (apiculatus) ; terminating abruptly in a little 
point ; differing from mucronate in the point being part of the 
limb, and not arising wholly from a costa. 
9. Hooked (uncinatus, f uncatus) ; curved suddenly back at the 
point ; as the leaves of Mesembryanthemum uncinatum. 
10. Beaked (rostratus, rostellatus) ; terminating gradually in a 
hard, long, straight point ; as the pod of Radish. 
11. Acute, or sharp-pointed {acutus); terminating at once in a 
point, not abruptly, but without tapering in any degree ; as 
any lanceolate leaf. 
12. Taper-pointed {acuminatus) ; terminating very gradually in a 
point ; as the leaf of Salix alba. 
13. t Acuminose (f acuminosus) ; terminating gradually in a flat 
narrow end. 
14. Tail-pointed {caudatus)\ excessively acuminated, so that the 
point is long and weak, like the tail of some animal ; as the 
calyx of Aristolochia trilobata, the petals of Brassia caudata. 
15. Blunt {obtusus) ; terminating gradually in a rounded end ; as 
the leaf of Berberis vulgaris. 
16. Blunt with a point (pbtusus cum acumine)\ terminating ab- 
ruptly in a round end, the middle of which is suddenly length- 
ened into a point ; as the leaf of many Rubi. 
17. Retuse (retusus) ; 'terminating in a round end, the centre of 
which is depressed ; as the leaf of Vaccinium Vitis Idaea. 
