Deliquescent, melting away on exposure to the air 
heat. 
Deltoid, shaped like the Greek A. 
Deltoid-ovate, having an outline between the shape 
of an egg and a A. 
Demulcent, having the property of softening any 
thing. 
Dentate, having the margin divided into incisions 
resembling teeth. 
Dentately-ciliated, \ having the margin toothed and 
Dentately-fringed, tipped with hairs. 
Dentately-lobed, toothed so deep as to appear 
lobed. 
Dentately-pinnatifid, toothed so deep as to appear 
pinnatifid. 
Dentately-runcinate, toothed so deep as to appear 
runcinate. 
Dentately-serrated, having the margin divided into 
incisions, resembling the teeth of a saw. 
Dentately-sinuated, having the margin scolloped 
and toothed. 
Denticulate, \ having the margins finely and slight- 
Denticulated, ly toothed. 
Denticulately-serrated, having the margins finely 
toothed, resembling a very fine saw. 
Denticulately-ciliated, having the margin so finely 
toothed as to appear edged with hairs. 
Denticulately-scabrous, having rough denticulations. 
Denticulations, very small teeth. 
Deobstruent, having the power of removing obstruc- 
tlons, a term in medicine. 
Dependent, hanging down. 
Depressed, pressed down, low, having the appear- 
ance of being pressed. 
Depurated, purified, cleansed. 
Despumate, to throw out a froth or scum. 
Detergent, detersive, having the power of cleans- 
ing; a term in medicine. 
Diadelphous, stamens are said to be so when they 
are connected into two bodies. 
Diandrous, having two stamens. 
Diaphanous, transparent. 
Diaphoretic, promoting perspiration. 
Dichotomous, ramifying in pairs. 
Dichotomously-branched, branched in a dichoto- 
mous manner. See Dichotomous. 
Dichotomously-panicled, having a panicle divided in 
a dichotomous manner. 
Didymous, two, united, usually applied to the fruit 
when they appear twin. 
Didynamous, having two long stamens and two short 
ones in the same flower, each pair being colla- 
teral. 
Dietetic, relating to food or diet. 
Difform, two forms, used to express irregu- 
Difformed, larity. 
Diffuse, scattered, widely spread. 
Diffusible, such as may be spread. 
Digitate, \ fingered; shaped like the hand spread 
Digitated, open. 
Digitately-lobed, lobed in a ‘digitate manner. See 
Digitate. 
Digitately-pinnate, pinnated in a digitate manner. 
Digynous, having two styles or female organs. 
Dilated, widened. 
Diluent, something diluting. 
Dimidiate, halved, divided into two parts. 
Diecious. When a plant bears female flowers on 
one individual and males on another, it is called 
dicecious. 
Disciform, having the form of a disk. See Disk. 
Discoid, when in composite the florets are all tu- 
bular, the head of flowers is said to be discoid. 
In other cases, when the florets of the centre of 
a head of flowers are more perfect than the rest, 
they are called discoid. Finally, when any 
thing is dilated into something which may be 
compared to a disk, the term discoid is also made 
use of. 
Disk, the fleshy annular process that surrounds the 
ovary in many flowers; a receptacle which ad- 
heres to the calyx; also the surface of a leaf; 
GLOSSARY. 
also the centre of a head of flowers of com- 
posite. 
Discutient, having the power to scatter the matter 
of tumours; a term in medicine. 
Dissepiment, the partitions by which a seed-vessel is 
divided internally. 
Distich, ? producing leaves, flowers, or branches 
Distichous, in two opposite rows. 
Distinct, separate, not joined nor meeting together. 
Di-trichotomous, divided in twos or threes; stems 
continually dividing into double or treble rami- 
fications : the term is sometimes applied to a 
panicle of flowers. 
Diuretic, having the power of promoting the flow 
of urine. 
Divaricate, Nl 
Divaricated, 
Divaricating, J 
Divergent, \ going far from one point, or far asun- 
Diverging, der; applied to branches and leaves. 
Dodecandrous, having 12 stamens. 
Dolabriform, having the form of an axe or hatchet. 
Dorsal, on the back, or growing on the back. 
Dots, may be either pellucid, resinous, or hairy. 
Doubly-serrated, twice serrated. See Serrated. 
Down, soft short hairs like down. 
Downy-villous, covered with long soft hairs like 
down. 
Downy-pubescent, soft short down, closely pressed to 
the surface. 
Drastic, applied to medicines which act violently. 
Drupe, a kind of fruit consisting of a fleshy succu- 
lent rind, and containing a hard stone in the 
middle—olive, plum, cherry. 
Drupaceous, form of a drupe, fleshy. 
Dyspepsia, difficulty of digestion; a term in me- 
dicine. 
growing in a straggling manner. 
E. 
Eared, having ears or appendages. 
Echinate, \ covered with prickles, like a hedge- 
Echinated, hog. 
Edible, eatable. 
Effuse, applied to inflorescence, and means a kind 
of panicle, with a very loose 1-seeded arrange- 
ment. 
Effusely-panicled, panicled in an effuse manner. 
Electuaries, a medicine of conserves and powders, 
the consistence of honey. 
Elephantiasis, a disease in which the limbs become 
prodigiously swollen and finally fall off. 
Elevated, any thing that rises above the surface. 
Ellipsoid, form of an ellipsis. 
zu rica, formed like an ellipsis, an oval figure. 
Elliptic or elliptical, when joined by a hyphen to 
another word, signifies a form between the two 
words; thus, elliptic-spatulate, elliptic-lanceolate, 
elliptically-spatulate, elliptical-ovate, elliptical-ob- 
ovate, &c. 
Elongated, lengthened out. 
Emarginate, having a small notch at the end or tip. 
Emarginately-2-lobed, so deeply emarginate as to 
form two lobes. 
Embossed, projecting in the centre like the boss, or 
umbo, of a round shield or target. 
Embracing, a leaf is said to embrace a stem when 
it clasps it round with its base. 
Embryo, the young plant in the seed. 
Emetic, that which produces vomiting. 
Emersed, applied to those leaves of water plants, 
which are above the water. 
Emmenagogue, any medicine that promotes men- 
struation. 
Emollient, softening. 
Emulsions, medicines made of bruised oily seeds. 
Endocarp, the inner membrane of fruit which forms 
the cells, usually under the sarcocarp. It is 
various in consistence. ° 
Endopleura, the inner coat of seeds under the sper- 
maderm. 
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Endosperm, the same as albumen. 
Enlarged, grown large. 
Ensate, shaped like a sword with 
Ensifaim, $ blade. 
Entire, not notched. 
Epicarp, the outside covering of a fruit. 
Epidermis, the outer skin of the bark. 
Epiphyllous, growing upon the leaves. 
Epipetalous, growing upon the petals. 
Epigynous, growing upon the style or ovary. 
Epiphytes, plants which grow upon other plants 
without deriving ahy nutriment from them. 
Equal, applied to petals and sepals when they are 
equal in size and shape with each other; to the 
calyx in Crucifere, when it is without pouches at 
the base. 
Equidistant, a mode of vernation, or of arrange- 
ment of leaves with respect to each other, in 
which the sides or edges alternately overlap 
each other. 
Erectly-spreading, between erect and spreading. 
Erose, gnawed, bitten, a term used to denote a 
particular kind of irregular denticulation. 
Erosely-toothed, when the teeth are gnawed or erose. 
Erosely-serrated, when the serratures are gnawed. 
Errhine, promoting a discharge of mucous from the 
nostrils. 
Escharotic, having the power to burn the skin. 
Esculent, good for food. 
Even, applied to a surface when it is not wrinkled 
or curled, but smooth and even. 
Evanescent, quickly vanishing. 
Evolved, unfolded. 
Exarillate, without aril. 
Exalbuminous, without albumen. 
Excavated, hollowed out. 
Evcentral, out of the centre. 
Excoriate, stripped of the bark or skin. 
Excurrent, projecting or running beyond the edge 
or point of any thing. 
Exotic, foreign. 
Expectorant, any thing that promotes the discharge 
of mucous from the chest. 
Exserted; projecting much beyond something else. 
Exsiccated, dried up. 
Extra-azillary, growing from above or below the 
axils of the leaves or branches. 
Extra-foliaceous, away from the leaves, or inserted 
in a different place from them. 
Exstipulate, without stipulas. See Stipulas. 
Exuvia, whatever is cast off from plants. 
a straight 
See Aril. 
See Albumen. 
F. 
Fecula, the nutritious powder of wheat or other 
things, the albumen of seeds. 
Paleate, l bent like a sickle. 
alciform, 
Falsely-2-valved, having two valves, which are not 
of the same nature as other valves. 
Fan-nerved, the nerves disposed in the manner ot 
a fan. 
Farinaceous, full of flour. 
Farina, meal. 
Farinaceously-tomentose, \ covered with a mealy kind 
Farinosely-tomentose, l of down. 
Farinose, mealy. 
Fasciated, faced, having white blotches or stripes. 
Fascicled, in bundles or parcels. 
Fascicles, parcels or bundles. 
Fascicled-hairs, hairs in parcels. 
Fasciculate, 
Fascicular, 
Fascicled-whorles, arranged in parcels, but still 
forming a whorl or circle. 
Fascicled-racemes, disposed in separate parcels, the 
whole forming a raceme. 
Fasciculately-tuberous, \ roots composed of a parcel 
Fascicled-tuberous, } or parcels of tubers. 
Fastigiate, tapering to a narrow point like a py- 
ramid. 
\ arranged in bundles or parcels. 
