accumbent

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The cotyledons are accumbent when they lie with their edges against the radicle, 128.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

Seeds in 2 rows in each cell, rounded, broadly winged; cotyledons accumbent; radicle short.—A low annual, with once or twice pinnatifid leaves and leafy-bracteate racemes of yellow flowers.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Cotyledons accumbent, flattened, equal or nearly so, petiolate.—Mostly glabrous perennials, leafy-stemmed, growing along watercourses and in wet places.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Seed of Bitter Cress, Barbarea, cut across to show the accumbent cotyledons.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

Cotyledons accumbent or a little oblique.—Leaves seldom divided.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa