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  KEY 
  AND 
  FLORA 
  

  

  Dissected, 
  deeply 
  divided 
  or 
  cut 
  

  

  into 
  many 
  segments. 
  

   Drupe, 
  a 
  stone 
  fruit 
  such 
  as 
  a 
  peach 
  

  

  or 
  a 
  plum. 
  

  

  Equitant, 
  leaves 
  astride 
  of 
  those 
  

   within 
  them, 
  thus 
  appearing 
  in 
  a 
  

   cross 
  section 
  like 
  the 
  diagram, 
  

  

  Even-pinnate, 
  abruptly 
  pinnate, 
  

   i.e. 
  with 
  no 
  leaflet 
  at 
  the 
  end. 
  

  

  Fascicle, 
  a 
  close 
  cluster 
  or 
  bundle 
  

  

  of 
  flowers, 
  leaves, 
  stems, 
  or 
  roots. 
  

   Fertile, 
  capable 
  of 
  producing 
  fruit 
  ; 
  

  

  fertile 
  flowers, 
  those 
  which 
  have 
  

  

  pistils. 
  

  

  Filiform, 
  thread-shaped. 
  

   Fleshy, 
  succulent, 
  thick 
  and 
  full 
  of 
  

  

  sap. 
  

   Funiculus, 
  the 
  little 
  stalk 
  which 
  

  

  connects 
  a 
  seed 
  or 
  ovule 
  with 
  the 
  

  

  placenta. 
  

  

  Gland 
  : 
  (1) 
  a 
  structure 
  which 
  secretes 
  

   something, 
  as 
  the 
  knobs 
  on 
  the 
  

   hairs 
  of 
  sundew 
  ; 
  (2) 
  any 
  knob 
  

   or 
  swelling. 
  

  

  Glume, 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  two 
  sterile, 
  

   chaffy 
  bracts 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  a 
  

   grass 
  spikelet. 
  

  

  Herbaceous, 
  with 
  no 
  stem 
  above- 
  

   ground 
  which 
  lives 
  through 
  the 
  

   winter, 
  not 
  woody 
  

   or 
  shrubby. 
  

  

  Imbricate, 
  overlap- 
  

   ping, 
  as 
  the 
  seg- 
  

   ments 
  of 
  some 
  

   perianths 
  in 
  the 
  

  

  Imbricate 
  

  

  bud. 
  At 
  least 
  one 
  segment 
  must 
  

   be 
  wholly 
  outside 
  and 
  one 
  wholly 
  

   inside. 
  

  

  Indefinite, 
  too 
  many 
  to 
  be 
  easily 
  

   counted. 
  

  

  Indehiscent, 
  not 
  splitting 
  open 
  reg- 
  

   ularly 
  . 
  

  

  Introduced, 
  term 
  applied 
  to 
  plants 
  

   purposely 
  brought 
  into 
  a 
  region 
  

   by 
  man. 
  

  

  Involucrate, 
  provided 
  with 
  an 
  in- 
  

   volucre. 
  

  

  Keel, 
  the 
  two 
  anterior 
  and 
  united 
  

   petals 
  of 
  a 
  papilionaceous 
  corolla. 
  

  

  Key, 
  a 
  winged 
  fruit 
  like 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  

   ash 
  or 
  maple. 
  

  

  Limb, 
  the 
  border 
  or 
  spreading 
  part 
  

   of 
  a 
  gamopetalous 
  calyx 
  or 
  co- 
  

   rolla. 
  

  

  Lobed, 
  having 
  divisions, 
  especially 
  

   rounded 
  ones. 
  

  

  Lodicule, 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  very 
  minute 
  

   scales 
  immediately 
  beneath 
  each 
  

   flower 
  in 
  a 
  grass 
  spikelet. 
  

  

  Naturalized, 
  term 
  applied 
  to 
  plants 
  

   not 
  natives 
  of 
  a 
  region 
  but 
  thor- 
  

   oughly 
  established 
  there 
  in 
  a 
  

   wild 
  condition. 
  

  

  Nerved, 
  having 
  simple 
  or 
  un- 
  

   branched 
  veins 
  or 
  slender 
  ribs. 
  

  

  Ob- 
  (in 
  composition), 
  signifies 
  in- 
  

   versely; 
  as, 
  obcordate, 
  inversely 
  

   heart-shaped. 
  

  

  odd-pinnate, 
  pinnate 
  with 
  a 
  sin- 
  

   gle 
  leaflet 
  at 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  

   midrib. 
  

  

  