circinate
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These are the buds readying for the circinate vernation that will slowly, like a graceful dancer, unfurl fiddleheads into this year’s new fronds.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 2022
Most Ferns are circinate in the bud; that is, are rolled up in the manner shown in Fig.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray
Scorpioid or Scorpioidal, curved or circinate at the end, 77.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray
P. campan.-convex, lubricous, smoky-ochre, edge revolute downy and whitish; g. sinuate, crowded, reddish, edge white, crenulate; s. slender, whitish, subbulbous, with reflexed circinate fibrils; sp. 11-12 long. nauseosum, Cke.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
Equisetaceæ, 675 On the back or margin of fronds circinate in vernation.
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 Asa Gray
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