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GLOSSARY OF SPECIAL TEEMS. 



Barbellate. Furnished with minute 

 barbs. 



Basifixed. Attached by the base. 



Berry. A fruit with pericarp wholly 

 pulpy. 



Bilabiate. With two lips. 



Bipinnate. Twice pinnate. 



Bipinnatifid. Twice pinnatifid. 



Blade. The flat expanded part of a 

 leaf or a petal. 



Bract. A leaf, usually small, sub- 

 tending a flower or flower-cluster, 

 or a sporange. 



Bracteate. With bracts. 



Bracteolate. Having bractlets. 



Bractlet. A secondary bract, borne 

 on a pedicel, or immediately be- 

 neath a flower ; sometimes applied 

 to minute bracts. 



Biilb: A bud with fleshy scales, usu- 

 ally subterranean. 



Bulblet. A small bulb, especially 

 those borne on leaves, or in their 

 axils. 



Bulbous. Similar to a bulb ; bearing 

 bulbs. 



Caducous. Falling away very soon 

 after development. 



Caespitose. Growing in tufts. 



Calcified. Coated or permeated with 

 lime. 



Callosity. A small, hard protuber- 

 ance. 



Callus. An extension of the inner 

 scale of a grass spikelet; a pro- 

 tuberance. 



Calyx. The outer of two series of 

 floral leaves. 



Campanulate. Bell-shaped. 



Campylotropous. Term applied to 

 the curved ovule. 



Cancellate. Reticulated, with the 

 meshes sunken. 



Canescent. With gray or hoary fine 

 pubescence. 



Canaliculate. Channelled ; longitu- 

 dinally grooved. 



Capitate. Arranged in a head ; knob- 

 like. 



Capsular. Pertaining to or like a 

 capsule. 



Capsule. A dry fruit of two carpels 

 or more, usually dehiscent by 

 valves or teeth. 



Carinate. Keeled; with a longitudinal 

 ridge. 



Carpel. The modified leaf forming 

 the ovary, or a part of a compound 

 ovary. 



Caruncle. An appendage to a seed 

 at the hilum. 



Carunculate. With a caruncle. 



Caryopsis. The grain; fruit of 

 grasses, with a thin pericarp ad- 

 herent to the seed. 



Caudate. With a slender tail-like ap- 

 pendage. 



Caudex. The persistent base of peren- 

 nial herbs, usually only the part 

 above ground. 



Caudicle. Stalk of a pollen-mass in 

 the Orchid and Milkweed families. 



Cauline. Pertaining to the stem. 



Cell. A cavity > of an anther or ovary; 

 a microscopic protoplasmic unit. 



Cespitose. (See Caespitose.) 



Chaff. Thin dry scales. 



Chalaza. The base of the ovule. 



Chartaceous. Papery in texture. 



Chlorophyll. Green coloring matter 

 of plants. 



Chlorophyllous. -Containing chloro- 

 phyll. 



Chromatophore. A specialized color- 

 bearing protoplasmic body. 



Ciliate. Provided with marginal hairs. 



Ciliolate. Minutely ciliate. 



Cilium. A hair. 



Cinereous. Ashy ; ashy-colored. 



Circinnate. oiled downward from 

 the apex! 



Circumscissile. Transversely dehis- 

 cent, the top falling away as a lid. 



Clavate. Club-shaped. 



Cleistogamous. Flowers which do not 

 open, but are pollinated from their 

 own anthers. 



Cleft. Cut about halfway to the mid- 

 vein. 



Clinandrium. Cavity between the an- 

 ther-sacs in orchids. 



Cochleate. Like a snail shell. 



Coma. Tuft of hairs at the ends of 

 some seeds. 



Commissure. The contiguous sur- 

 faces of two carpels. 



Conceptacle. A cavity containing re- 

 productive cells and opening out- 

 wards. 



Condiiplicate. Folded lengthwise. 



Confluent. Blended together. 



Connate. Similar organs more or less 

 united. 



