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Excerpt from Field Book of American Wild Flowers: Being a Short Description of Their Character and Habits, a Concise Definition of Their Colors, and Incidental References to the Insects Which Assist in Their Fertilization
Not infrequently it is the case that the leaves are so crowded on the plant-stem one cannot tell whether they are alternate or opposite. But the Key always records the fact, and it is the alternating leaf which usually does the crowding. In the use of the term circling I do not mean that kind of a leaf which is apparently pierced by the plant-stem, but the one Which with its fellows encircles the stem; the technical term for such an arrangement is whorled. Whorled leaves are, of course, opposite.
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