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

Seeds numerous, anatropous, with a short and minute embryo at the base of the albumen.—Leaves circinate in the bud, i.e., rolled up from the apex to the base as in Ferns.

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

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 Gray, Asa

Ferns, with fronds circinate in vernation, bearing the fructification on the under surface or beneath the margin.

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

The leaves are generally circinate in the bud, as in ferns.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various