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INTRODUCTION TO BOTANY. 
Knee-bent, geniculatus. Folded so as to form an angle. 
Guettarda speciosa. 
Folded, replicatus , condupLicaius. Folded in two, and 
the folds brought close together. Alisma, Sagittaria, Da- 
masonium. 
Ringlike, annularis . Slender, long, bent so that the 
cotyledon end touches the radicular. Salsola, Silene. 
Pill-like, in orbem contractus. Bent so as to form a ball. 
Sinapis alba. 
Spiral, spiralis , cochleatus. Bent in a spiral. Salsola 
tragus, Cuscuta Europaea. PI. 13, fig. 14*. 
Crooked, Jlexuosus. Bent in different directions. An-, 
guillaria Bahamensis. 
f Enclosed, reclusus, inclusus . Shut up in the perisperm. 
Anagallis phoenicia, Campanula, Galium. 
Axile, axilis. Slender, surrounded with a perisperm, 
and placed in a straight line from one point to that dia- 
metrically opposite. Typha, Plantagineae, Fraxinus, Cam- 
panula, Berberis, Saxifragese. 
Medial, medians. Spread out broad, placed in the 
middle of the perisperm, and dividing it into two nearly 
equal parts. Cassia Fistula, Ricinus, Plura crepitans. 
Central, centralis. In the centre of the perisperm. 
Taxus baccata. PI. 13, fig. 22. 
Excentric, excentricus. Enclosed in the perisperm, but 
not placed in the centre. Cyclamen. 
External, exterior . On the surface of the perisperm. 
Scirpus, Gramineae, Nymphaea. 
Peripheric, periphcericus, albumine circumpositus. Ex- 
ternal, and surrounding the greater part of the perisperm. 
Mirabilis, Silene. Very rare. 
Nearly peripheric, siibperiphcericus. The perisperm that 
forms the central part of the kernel throws out the embryo, 
which spreads in a very thin flake over its surface. Atri~ 
plices, Amaranthideae. 
Crosswise, transversus . Long, and nearly parallel to 
the hile. Asparagus officinalis, Plantagineae, Cyclamen 
Europseiun, Primulacese, Polemonium, Many boraginese. 
Oblique, obliquus. One end further from the axis of the 
seed than the other. Gramineae. 
On the side, lateralis. Thrust on one side. Gramineae, 
Polygonum scandens, Cyclamen. 
At the base, basilaris. Placed entirely at the bottom of 
the seed near the hile. Cyperaceae, Juncus, Asarum, 
Aristolochia, Pedicular is, Umbelliferae, Papaver, Aconi- 
tuin, Ranunculus. 
