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Crown. 
Cup , Corona . A cuplike appendage, placed on the throat 
of the flower. — Silene, Narcissus. 
Orbiculus. 
A circular swelling of the base of the corolla, surrounding 
the sexual organs. — Stapelia. 
Limb. 
Limbus . The upper expanded part of a gamopetalous 
corolla. 
Folded, Limbus plicatus . In regular folds like a fan. 
Convolvulus, Pneumonanthe vulgaris. 
Twisted, tortus , contortus. The divisions of the limb 
are cut obliquely, and cover one another, before the open- 
ing of the flower, by twining round the axis of the flower. 
Nerium Oleander, Vinca, and other Apocyneas. 
Upright, erectus . Parallel to the axis of the flow T er. 
Hydrophyllum, Cynoglossuin officinale, Cerinthe. 
Spreading, patens. Forming a right angle with the 
tube. Verbena multifida, Anchusa Italica, Nerium Olean- 
der, Chironia, Centaurium. 
Turned back, reflexus . Turned over outwardly. Cycla- 
men, Dulcamara flexuosa, Asclepias, Oxycoccus palustris. 
Revolute, revolutus. Rolled over outwardly. Cestrum 
cauliflorum, C. fastigiatum, C. odontospermum. 
Upper Lip. 
Labium superius . The upper division of a two-lipped 
gamopetalous corolla. 
Spread forward, Labium superius porrectum. Carried 
out in the fore-part, in the same direction as the tube. 
Monarda, Phlomis Leonurus, Galeopsis nodosa. 
Ascending, ascendens. Following at first the direction 
of the tube, and then rising up. Nepeta longiflora, Stachys 
annua, Betonica officinalis. PL 9, fig. 13. 
Turned back, reflectum,. Turned over on the tube. 
Plectranthus punctatus. PI. 9, fig. 15. 
Turned in, inflectum . Turned inwards on the low er lip. 
Brunella. 
Sicklelike, falcatum. Bent like a reaping-hook. Salvia 
bicolor. S. pratensis. 
