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INTRODUCTION TO BOTANY. 
Three-forked, trichotomies. Divided and subdivided into 
secondary, &c. leafstalks by being split each time into 
three. Epimediuin alpinum. PI. 6, fig. 1 . 
Tendril-bearing, cirriferus. Bearing tendrils. Smilax 
horrida. PI. 8, fig. 2. 
Tendril-like, cirriformis. Twining like a tendril. Fu- 
maria capreolata, Clematis orientalis. PL 6, fig. 14. 
Stipuled, stipuliferus . Leafstalk, or the primary leaf- 
stalk, if compound, furnished at the bottom with stipules. 
Rosa, Ononis, Mespilus Germanica, Oxalis corniculata. 
Stipulated, siipelldti . Secondary, &c. leafstalks fur- 
nished at their base with small stipules. 
Gland-bearing, glanduliferus. Furnished with glands. 
Op ulus palustris, Prunus. 
Margined, winged, marginatus , alatiis. Furnished with 
expansions on the sides. Pisum Ochrus, Citrus Aurantium. 
Sheathing, vaginans. Forming a sheath round the 
stem or scape. Gramineae, Cyperacese, Umbelliferae. PI. 4, 
fig. 1. 
Convolute, convolutus. Resembling a lamina rolled 
round the stalk. Gramineae. 
Tubular, tubulatus. Forming a tube sheathing the stem. 
Cyperacese. 
Inflated, inflatus. Hollow and swelling. Trapa natans. 
Locular, loculosus. Hollow and divided by partitions. 
Eryngium corniculatum. 
Thorned, spinescens . Ending in a thorn. Robinia 
Halodendron. 
Beside these characters, it is necessary to attend to the 
form of the leafstalk, whether cylindrical, clubshape, 
grooved, compressed, depressed; to its length compared 
with that of the leaf; and to its length in respect to our 
common measures. 
LIGULE. 
Ligula, Collare. A membranous appendage surmounting 
the sheathing petiole , at the junction between the sheath 
and the blade of the leaf. 
Uncut, Ligula Integra. Poa pratensis. 
Cleft, Jissa. Phleum crinitum. 
Torn, lacera. Milium lentigerum. 
Fringed, ciliata. Holcus lanatus. 
Truncated, truncata . A vena fatua. 
Acuminated, acuminata. Phalaris paradoxa. 
Scalelike, squamiformis. Poa arenosa. PL 4, fig. 1 . 
