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INTRODUCTION TO BOTANY. 
Alternate, alterna. One by one by spaces along the 
stem. Gramineae, Acetosa vulgaris, Hesperis matronalis, 
Rosa, Pyrus. 
Spirally, spiralia. Alternate in two, three, or more pa- 
rallel series round the stem. Abies Picea, Lycopodium, 
abietiforme. 
Orderless, scattered, spars'a. Growing without any re- 
gular order. Antirrhinum majus, Hedera communis, Re- 
seda salicifolia. 
Two-ranked, disticha. With their points of attachment, 
and their direction on two opposite sides. Ulmus cam- 
pestris. 
f Distant, remota. Placed at a greater distance from one 
another than usual. 
Crowded, approximately conferta. Placed at a less dis- 
tance from one another than usual. Daphne sempervirens. 
Tile-like, imbricata. One covering another like the tiles 
of a house. Saxiffaga oppositifolia, Sedum acre, S. ru- 
pestre. 
Roselike, rosaceous, roselata. Alternate, numerous, 
crowded, and diverging, so as to appear like a double rose. 
Sempervivum tectorum, Saxifraga pyramidalis. 
Crowning, coronaiitia. Roselike, and terminating the 
stem or its divisions. Palmae, Filices arborese, Carica 
Papaya. 
% In bundles, fasciculata. Several leaves from the same 
point. Berberis vulgaris, Larix. 
Twin, geminaia , Vina. In bundles of two leaves each. 
Galanthus nivalis, Atropa lethalis, Pinus sylvestris, P. ma- 
ritima. 
In bundles of three, terna. Pinus Tseda, P. palustris. 
In bundles of five, quina . Pinus Strobus, P. Cembro. 
3. Attachment. 
Squatted, Folia sessilia. Growing without any footstalk. 
Mentha sylvestris, Androssemum officinale, Genista, Te- 
lephium. 
Decurrent, decurrentia. Sessile, and the lower part of 
the leaf extended along the stem. Symphytum officinale, 
Carduus lanceolata. PI. 6, fig. 11. 
Embracing, amplexicaulia. Embracing the stalk, by an 
enlargement of their base. Silybum Mariae, Papaver som- 
niferum. PI. 6, fig. 7. 
