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6. Duration. 
Once-fruiting, Plantce monocarpicce . Bearing fruit only 
once in their life. 
1 . Ephemeral, ephemera s, fugaces. Lasting only a few 
days, or even hours. Tremella, many fungi. 
2. Annual, annuce. Lasting near a whole summer. 
Hordeum. 
3. Biennial, hiennes . Producing leaves only the first 
year, and flowers and fruit in the succeeding. Verbascum 
decurrens, CEnothera biennis. 
4. Slow growing, perennes. Being several years before 
they flower, and dying soon after. Agave. 
Many- fruiting, polycarpicce. Bearing fruit several times 
during their life. 
1. Perennial, perennes , restihilia , rhizocar piece. Dying 
down to the ground every year, and in the following pro- 
ducing new flowering stems. Aster. 
2. Arborescent, caulocar piece, f rut icosce. The stem itself 
lasts during the life of the plant. Trees, shrubs. 
7. Mode of production. 
Seed-bearing, Plantce seminiferce . Bearing seeds. Most 
plants. 
Gongyliferous, gongyliferce. Bearing gongyles or spores. 
Mosses, Algse. 
Stool-bearing, Stoloniferce. Throwing out stools, siolones , 
which take root. Pilosella. 
Runner-bearing, viticulosce . Throwing out runners, 
viiiculce , sar menta , or flagella, which take root from space 
to space. 
Shoot-bearing, surculif erce. Throwing out shoots, sur- 
culi, from the crown of the root, which may be separated, 
and will then produce a new plant. Oliva europaea. 
Propaculiferce. Throwing out a shoot terminating by a 
leaf-bud, which, when separated from the original plant, 
will grow. Sempervivum. ? 
Bulbous, bulbosce,. Furnished with a bulb, underground, 
throwing up leaves and a stem. Lilium, Tulipa, Allium, 
Cepa. 
Bulbilliferous, lulhillfercB, soholiferce . Producing small 
bulbs, hulhilli , propagines , bacilli, soboles , sautellce, on the 
axillae of their branches, or leaves, or elsewhere, above 
ground, Crinum bulbiferum, Allium. 
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