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2. Alternate {alternus) ; placed alternately one above the other 
on some common body, as leaves upon the stem. 
3. Stellate {slellatus, stelliformis^ stellulatus) ; the same as ver- 
ticillate, No. 4., except that the parts are narrow and 
acute. 
4. Whorled (yerticillatus) ; when several things are in opposition 
round a common axis, as some leaves round their stem ; sepals, 
petals, and stamens round the ovarium, &c. 
5. Ternate (ternus') ; when three things are in opposition round 
a common axis. 
6. Loose (laxus) ; when the parts are distant from each other, 
with an open light kind of arrangement; as the panicle 
among the other kinds of inflorescence. 
7. Scattered (sparsus) ; used in opposition to whorled, or oppo- 
site, or ternate, or other such terms. 
8. Compound (composiius) ; when formed of several parts 
united in one common whole ; as pinnated leaves, all kinds of 
inflorescence beyond that of the solitary flower. 
9. Crowded (^confertus) ; when the parts are pressed closely 
round about each other. 
10. Imbricated {imhricatus) ; when parts lie over each other in 
regular order, like tiles upon the roof of a house ; as the 
scales upon the cup of some acorns. 
11. Rosulate (rosulatus, rosularis) ; when parts which are not 
opposite, nevertheless become apparently so by the con- 
traction of the joints of the stem, and lie packed closely over 
