GLOSSARY 



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BOTANICAL TERMS 



NOTE. The figures in the American Medical Botany, by the author, are occasion-' 

 ally referred to for farther illustration of the terms. 



Abortive. Producing no fruit. 



Abrupt. Terminating suddenly, as if cut off; as in the root of Sanguinaria 



Canadensis. Med. Bot. PI. 7. 



Abruptly pinnate. Pinnate with even pairs only. Wanting the odd or ter- 

 minal leafet. 



Acerose. Stiff, linear and sharp, as in the leaves of the Pines. 

 Acicular. Needle shaped. 



Acinaciform. Shaped like a scimetar. Linear, crooked and sharp edged. 

 Acinus. One of the protuberances which make up a compound berry, as in 



Rubiis i-illoms. Med. Bot. PI. 38. 



Acotyledonous. Having no cotyledons or seed lobes ; as ferns. 

 Aculeate. Prickly. 



Aculeus. A prickle, growing to the bark, not to the wood. 

 Acuminate. Ending in a long, produced, sharp point. More than acute ; as 



in the leaves of Gillenia trifoliata. Med. Bot. PI. 41. 

 Acute. Ending in a sharp point. Less than acuminate ; as in the leaves of 



Phylolacca decandria. Med. Bot PI. 3. 

 Adnate. Growing to. Affixed laterally. 

 Agglomerated. Bunched. Crowded together. 



Aggregate. Standing together, many on the same receptacle, but not com- 

 pound. 

 Aigrette. The downy or feathery appendage of certain seeds. Same as 



Pappus. 



Alated. See Winged. 

 Albumen. A tough, hard or fleshy substance which forms the bulk of certain 



monocotyledonous seeds. 



Albuminous. Partaking the nature of albumen. 



Algff. An order of the class Crytogamia, containing the sea weeds, Sic. 

 Alternate. Placed alternately on opposite sides of the' stem. 

 Alveolate. With cells like those of a honey comb. 

 Ament, or Catkin. A collection of small scales, serving for calyxes, on the 



side of a slender stalk ; as in Juglans cinerea. Med. Bot. PI. 32. 

 Amplexicaul. See Clasping. 

 Ancipital Two edged. 

 Androgynous. Having barren and fertile flowers on the same spike, or the 



same plant, but no perfect ones. 

 Anisate. Having the odour of anise. 

 Annual. Living but one year, during which it produces flowers and seed. 



