circinate

These are the buds readying for the circinate vernation that will slowly, like a graceful dancer, unfurl fiddleheads into this year’s new fronds.

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.

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

Most Ferns are circinate in the bud; that is, are rolled up in the manner shown in Fig.

When is a patch of eruption said to be circinate?