GLOSSARY, 



OR 



DICTIONARY OF BOTANICAL TERMS, ENGLISH 



AND LATIN, 



COMBINED WITH AN INDEX. 



THIS Glossary is intended to contain all the principal technical terms (substan- 

 tive as well as adjective) of structural and systematic Botany, as far at least as 

 concerns Ph.tnogamous plants. Most of the special terms relating to the lower 

 Cryptogamia and to Vegetable Anatomy and Physiology are relegated to the vol- 

 umes devoted to those departments. The annexed numbers refer to pages of this 

 volume. Very many of the terms are seldom employed, or are wholly out of use. 

 The principal Latin terms are given separately only when there is no English equiv- 

 alent differing merely in the termination. When the word is essentially the same, 

 the Latin termination (of adjectives in the nominative masculine only) is annexed 

 to the English word in a parenthesis. The changed termination goes back mostly 

 to the penultimate consonant. It is unnecessary in a work like this to accentuate 

 all the technical words; but, in the case of words liable to mispronunciation, an 

 accent-mark is placed over the syllable which takes the principal accent. The 

 glossary, as here drawn up, may serve to indicate the meaning of the commoner 

 descriptive specific names of plants. 



A, privative, as the initial in many 

 words of Greek derivation, signifies 

 the absence of the organ mentioned*, 

 as, ylpetalous, destitute of petals ; 

 Aphyllous, leafless. In words be- 

 ginning with a vowel, this prefix is 

 changed to an; as, --Ireanthous, flow- 

 erless ; ^wantherous, antherless. 



Abbreviations, 385. 



Aberrant. Wandering, applied to spe- 

 cies, genera, &c., which differ in some 

 respect from the usual or normal char- 

 acter of the group they belong to. 



Abnormal (Abnormis). Differing from 

 the normal or usual structure. 



Aboriginal. Strictly native; indigenous. 



Abortion (Abortus). Imperfect develop- 

 ment or non-development of an organ ; 

 179, 187. 



Abortive (-ivus). Defective or barren. 



Abrupt (Abruptus). Terminating sud- 

 denly ; the opposite of tapering. 



Abruptly pinnate. Pinnate without a 

 terminal leaflet or appendage ; 101. 



Acant/tocladous (-us). Having spinjl 

 branches. 



Acanthophorous (-us). Spine-bearing. 



Acaulescent (-ens). Stemless, or appar- 

 ently so, with no proper caulis; 45. 



Acaulls. Stemless; same as Acaulescent. 



Accessory. Something additional, or of 

 the nature of appendage. 



Accessory Bud*. 44. 



Accessory Fruits, 300. 



Accrescent (-ens). Increasing in size 

 with age, as often occurs with the 

 calyx after flowering. 



Accrete (-us). Grown together, or con- 

 solidated with some contiguous body. 



Accumbent (-ens). Lying against an- 

 other body. 



Accumbent Cotyledons. With edges 

 against the radicle: 313. 



Acephalous (-us). Headless. 



