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moss or mosslike plant which cellular stems, having usually an upward growth and distinct leaves.

Changing the direction in the spiral sequence of leaves on a stem.

A tense in the Greek language, which expresses an action as completed in past time, but leaves it, in other respects, wholly indeterminate.

despair." Macaulay. A certain apathy or sluggishness in his nature which led him . . . to leave events to take their own course. Prescott. According to the Stoics, apathy meant the extinction of the passions by the ascendency of reason. Fleming.

Having no petals, or flower leaves. [See Illust. under Anther].

Turning away from the sun; -- said of leaves, etc. Darwin.

Destitute of leaves, as the broom rape, certain euphorbiaceous plants, etc.

Bending away from the ground; -- said of leaves, etc. Darwin.

The apogeotropic tendency of some leaves, and other parts.

ustrate agreement or disagreement, fitness, or correspondence; as, I make the remark, and leave you to make the application; the application of a theory.

h certainty. [Obs.] G. You are too much distrustful of my truth. E. Then you must give me leave to apprehend The means and manner how. Beau. & Fl.

ed of things. My vines and peaches . . . were apt to have a soot or smuttiness upon their leaves and fruit. Temple. This tree, if unprotected, is apt to be stripped of the leaves by a leaf-cutting ant. Lubbock.

an area; as, areal interstices (the areas or spaces inclosed by the reticulate vessels of leaves).

Divided into small spaces or areolations, as the wings of insects, the leaves of plants, or the receptacle of compound flowers.

, as the spaces bounded by the nervures of the wings of insects, or those by the veins of leaves; an areola.

uatic plant of the genus Sagittaria, esp. S. sagittifolia, -- named from the shape of the leaves.

An acrid herbaceous plant (Asarum Europæum), the leaves and roots of which are emetic and cathartic. It is principally used in cephalic snuffs.

A pitcher-shaped, or flask-shaped, organ or appendage of a plant, as the leaves of the pitcher plant, or the little bladderlike traps of the bladderwort (Utricularia).

A genus of trees of the Olive family, having opposite pinnate leaves, many of the species furnishing valuable timber, as the European ash (Fraxinus excelsior) and the white ash (F. Americana). Prickly ash (Zanthoxylum Americanum) and Poison ash (Rhus venenata) are shrubs of different families, somewhat resembling the t…

g erect much branched stems, and very slender branchlets which are sometimes mistaken for leaves. Asparagus racemosus is a shrubby climbing plant with fragrant flowers. Specifically: The Asparagus officinalis, a species cultivated in gardens.