



194 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 



Adelphous (stamens), joined in a fraternity (adelphid); see monadelphous, &c. 



A den, Greek for gland. So A denoplwrous, gland-bearing. 



Adherent, sticking to, or in ore commonly, growing fast to another body. 



Aiiit'i/t , lit. -rally, growing fast to, born adherent, 95. The anther is adnate when 



lixed by its whole length to the tilameut or its prolongation, 101. 

 AdnatiiM, the state of bein , 94. 



Adpreased or appressed, brought into contact with, but not united. 

 Adscendent, ascendent, or ascend imj, rising gradually upwards, 39. 



itt, or assurgent, same as ascending, 39. 



Adv< ntittous, out of the proper or usual place; e. g. Adventitious buds, 30. 

 Adventive, applied to foreign plants accidentally or sparingly introduced into a 



country, but hardly to be called naturalized. 

 ^Equilateral, equal-sided ; opposed to oblique. 

 Aerial roots, &c., 36. 



s, verdigris-colored. . 

 l, produced in summer. 



^Estivation, the arrangement of parts in a flower-bud, 97. 

 Agamous, sexless. 

 A ggregate fruits, 118. 

 Ayrestis, growing in fields. 



Air-cells or Air-passages, spaces in the tissue of leaves and some stems, 131. 

 Air- Plants, 36. 

 Akcne or Akenium, 120. 



Ala (plural, al<f), a wing; the side-petals of a papilionaceous corolla, 92. 

 Alabastrum, a flower-bud. 

 Alar, situated in the forks of a stem. 

 Alate, winged. 



Albescent, whitish, or turning white. 

 Albas, Latin for white. 



Albumen of the seed, nourishing matter stored up with the embryo, 21, 127. 

 Albumen, a vegetable product, of four elements. 

 Albuminous (seeds), furnished with albumen, 21. 

 Alburnum, young wood, sap-wood, 142. 

 Alliaceous, with odor of garlic. 

 Allogamous, close fertilization. 

 Alpestrine, subalpine. 



Alj'ine, belonging to high mountains above the limit of forests. 

 Alternate (leaves), one after another, 29, 67. Petals are alternate with the 



sepals, or stamens with the petals, when they stand over the intervals between 



them, 82. 



Alveolate, honeycomb-like. 



Ament, the scaly spike of trees like the Birch and Willow, 75. 

 Amentaceous, catkin-like, or ratkin-bearitiL'. 

 Jiii'ir/ibmis, shapeless, without any definite form. 

 Ain/'li!i-<tr/)<'ii!>. pnidm-iiig two kinds of fruit. 



itun (plural, amjtin'yastria), a peculiar stipule-like leaf of Liverworts. 

 i'/xnif, ovules or seeds, 111. 



, a piti-her-shaped orL'an. 



Aiii/>lii-tiint, emliracing. Amplezicmil (leaves), clasping the stem by the base. 

 lnci niif. swelling out like a bolile or Madder (iiiii/nillii). 



f, A/ni/Uiiil, cinnposed of siaivh (amylum), or starch-like. 



without stamens. 



Anantherous, without anthers. Anantlums, destitute of flowers ; flowerless. 

 Anastomosing, forming a net-work (anastomosis), as the vein.* of leaves, 50. 

 Aii'iti-n/ioiis ovules or seeds, 111. 

 Ancijnt'tl (unct'/if'), two-edged. 

 Anilnecium, a name for the stamens taken together, 98. 



