a. [f. L. foli-um leaf + -AL.] = next.
1878. G. D. Boardman, Creative Week, Appendix, 314. Wolff in 1759, Linnæus between 1760 and 1770, Goethe in 1790, De Candolle in 1827, and Schleiden in 1836, alike asserted the community of structure in the folial and the floral leaves.
1884. Syd. Soc. Lex., Folial Cycle, the mode of arrangement of leaves on an axis.
