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EXPLANATIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS. 
floccose .... woolly or cottony, separating into loose locks, 
velutinous . . velvety, 
sericeous .... silky. 
furry clothed with short crisped or irregularly crumpled 
pubescence. 
2. Hairs hard or stiff. 
hispid rough, with short coarse hairs. 
hispidulous . . rough in lowest degree. 
liirtose sprinkled with long distinct hairs. 
hirsute shaggy, with copious long close-set hairs. 
strigose .... harsh, with rather short distinct very hard stiff 
hairs, often springing from a bulb or tubercle. 
(Extreme of hispid.) 
setose bristly, with copious long close-set very stiff 
hairs. (Extreme of hirsute.) 
Direction of Stems. 
creeping .... lying flat along the ground, and rooting here 
and there. 
prostrate .... lying flat along the ground, but not rooting, 
procumbent. . lying partly flat, the ends ascending : less of 
• prostrate. 
ascending . . a little prostrate at the base ; then, and for the 
greater part of their length, upright, 
decumbent . . rising obliquely from the base, but falling back 
upon the ground. 
diffuse spreading loosely irregularly from the base, but 
not falling back upon the ground : less of de- 
cumbent. 
climbing .... trailing or laying hold in various ways, but not 
themselves twining. 
twining .... twisting or winding spirally. 
Colour of Flowers. 
w 
..... white. 
or 
. orange. 
1 
sc 
. scarlet. 
V 
violet. 
cr 
. crimson. 
1) 
r 
. red. 
gr 
y 
yellow. 
P 
. pink. 
Degree of Naturalization. 
f. — Quite naturalized or self-propagating, but probably intro- 
duced originally: e. g. Prickly Pear (Opuntia Tuna Mill.), 
Broom, Bramble, Bella Donna Lily, Star of Bethlehem 
( Ornithoffulum arabicum L.), Oxalis corniculata L., Uidens 
