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

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 Massee, George

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

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

Scarcely one       Peristome veils its beauties now, but then—   Like nascent diamonds, sparkling in the sun,       Or sainfoin, circinate, or moss in marshy fen.

From A Nonsense Anthology by Wells, Carolyn