Crossword-Solution: FLEXUOSE 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 18

The indigo plant, SWAINSONA GALEGIFOLIA, is a glabrous perennial, or undershrub, with erect flexuose branches, sometimes under one foot, sometimes ascending, or even climbing, to the height of several feet.

Sometimes it is a mere exaggeration of a normal condition; thus, in what are termed flexuose stems the stem twists alternately to one side or another, frequently in association with an oblique form of the leaf.

The stem is one and a half to three inches long, one to two lines thick, slender, generally flexuose, hollow fibrillose, pallid or brownish, pale-yellow at the top when young; spores are brownish-ferruginous, .0003 inch long, .00016 broad.

Stem in _sublateritius_ is "stuffed," attenuated downwards, ferruginous; stem of _fascicularis_ hollow, thin, flexuose.

Changed "deletereous" to "deleterious" on page 3 of part 3: "classed as deleterious." Changed "yellew" to "yellow" on page 4 of part 3: "never yellow." Changed "flexuous" to "flexuose" on page 4 of part 3: "thin, flexuose." The Analytic Table starting on Page 6 of part 3 was changed to use numeric codes to identify the branches in the tree rather than the special characters, for clarity and elimination of non-Latin-1 characters.