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Climbers. — Plants which throw their weight upon external supports 

 and grow fast, as they do not require to form the fibres for an erect 

 stem. 



Compound. — Applied to a leaf when it is divided into one or more 

 leaflets jointed on to one stalk. 



Cone. — The compound fruit of Pinus and other plants of the 

 coniferce (cone bearers). 



Corolla. — The inner envelope of the flower, where there are two 

 dissimilar envelopes, usually the most showy part, it may consist of 

 separate petals or united portions (corolla). 



Dentate. — Toothed as the margin of a leaf, notched with small 

 triangular processes. 



Digitate. — A compound leaf is digitate when it has several leaflets 

 radiating from the extremity of the leaf stalk. 



Drupe. — A fleshy fruit having a stone enclosing the seed or 

 kernel. 



Epiphyte. — A plant growing upon another without drawing 

 nourishment from it. 



Erect. — Applied to plants which have stems that support their 

 weight without external support. 



Exstipulate. — Having no stipules, see Stipules. 



Follicle. — -A several seeded carpel splitting open along one side 

 only. 



Fruit. — The seed vessel of any plant, edible or inedible. 



Head.— A Collection of small flowers sessile on one base, looking 

 like one flower as in the dandelion or daisy. 



Herb. — A plant which possesses very little woody stem above 

 ground, and usually dies down in the autumn or after flowering, and 

 is annual or perennial. 



Keel. — The two more or less combined petals, forming together 

 an angle as in the Pea. 



Lanceolate. — Of leaves nearly ovate, but tapering to both ends, 

 and broadest below the middle. 



Leaflets.— The articulated (jointed) primary divisions of a pinnate 

 compound leaf and the secondary divisions of a bipinnate leaf. 



Ligidate. — Strap shaped. 



Linear. — Narrow with almost parallel edges. 



Lobe. — The division of a leaf, of a leaflet or of a petal. 



