GLOSSARY AND INDKX. 



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Dlpsarcap, 4o5. 



DipterocarpciTj, 400. 



Dipterous : two-winged. 



Discifonii: disk-sliapo ; flat and circu- 

 lar, lilvC a disk or quoit. 



Discoidal, discoid: lil'ic a disk; or be- 

 longing to the disk ; destitute of 

 rays, 436. 



Disepulous • of two sepals. 



Disk, or disc : a fleshy expansion of the 

 receptacle of a flower, 267 : the 

 central part of a licad of flowers, 

 as opposed to the border, 436 ; the 

 face of any flat body, as opposed 

 to the margins. 



Disk-bearing woody tissue, 43. 



Disk-Jhweis, 436. 



Dissected : cut into pieces, or nearly so. 



Dissc'piment : the partition of a pod, 291. 



Dissilient: bursting in pieces. 



Distichous: in two vertical ranks, 134. 



Distinct : when parts of the same name 

 are unconnected, 2.51. 



Divdricate : straddling widely. 



Diverc/eiit : separating, their summits 

 inclining from each other. 



Divided: cut into distinct portions; 

 160, fig. 263, 267. 



Dodeca- : in Greek derivatives ; twelve. 



Dodecagy nia, 5 1 .5 



Dodeccvjiinous : with twelve pistils or 

 styles. 



Dodeciindria, .512. 



Dodecdnelrous : with twelve (or from 

 twelve to nineteen) stamens, 280. 



Dohihrifonn : axe-shapcd. 



Dorsal : belonging to the back (dorsuin). 



Dorsal suture, 289^ . 



Doltid ducts, 38. 



Doited h'dves, &c. : marked with small 

 spots, either colored, or transparent 

 and appearing like punctures. 



Double flowers : monstrous blossoms, 

 with the petals unduly multiplied, 

 222, 229. 



Doubli/ compound, 1 64. 



Douivj : clothed with soft pubescence. 



Dragon's blood, 414, 493. 



Droseraceas, 394. 



Drupaceous : like or pertaining to a 



Drupe: a stone-fruit, 312. 



Drupelet: a diminutive drupe, 313. 



Dryadca3, 418. 



Ducts, 45. 



Duinose : bushy. 



Dupilicale : douhled or folded. 



Duramen: heart-wood, 126. 



Dwarf: comparatively low in stature. 



E-, or Ex-, as a prefix, means destitute 

 of ; as, ecostate, ribless ; exalbumi- 

 nous, without albumen, &c. 



Eared: see Anriculate. 



Earthy constituents of plants, 179, 186. 



EbcnaccEE, 442. 



Ebc'neous : black like ebony. 



Ebony, 442. 



Ehrdcteate : destitute of bracts. 



Ebrdcteolutc : destitute of bractlcts. 



Elnlrncous : white like ivory. 



Ecldnatc : beset with prickles (like a 

 hedgehog). 



Echinulate: rough with small prickles. 



Ede'ntate : toothless. 



Effete: past the perfect or productive 

 state. 



Effuse : very loosely spreading. 



E'llandulose: destitute of glands. 



Elaborated sap, 53. 



Ela2agnacea3, 467. 



Elaters, 40, 505. 



Elatinacea\ 395. 



E/ementari/ constituents of plants, 179. 



Elcmentari/ structure of plants, 17. 



Ellipsoidid : apjiroaching the form of 



Elliptical: oval or oblong, and with 

 both ends similar and regularly 

 rounded. 



Emar(jinate: notched at the end ; 162, 

 fig. 273. 



Embracuui : suiTOunding, as by abroad 

 , attachment. 



Embrijo: the rudimentary plantlet in a 

 seed, 71,323. 



Embr^jo-sac, 304. 



Emhrijorjeny : the formation of the em- 

 bryo, 304. 



Emhrijonal vesicle, 306. 



Emcrsed : raised out of water. 



Emetine, 433. 



Enantiobldstous : with the emliryo at the 

 end of the (ortliotropous) seed dia- 

 metrically opposite the liilum, as in 

 Tradescantia. 



Endccagynia, 515. 



Endecd(]i/nous : with eleven pistils or 

 , styles. 



Endocarp : the inner laver of a pericarp, 

 , 310,312. 



Endoclnome : the coloring matter of 

 , Algffi. 



Endogen, Endo^ense, Endogenous 

 Plants, 113, 370, 482. 



Endekienous structure, 113, 114. 



Endophliiuni : inner bark, 120. 



Endophura : the innermost seed-coat, 

 321. 



Endorlii/.iB : a synonyme for Endogens. 



Endorln'zdl : said of an embryo which 

 has the radicle sheathed by the 

 cotyledon or plumule wrapped 

 around it. 



Endosmdse, or Endosmosis, 33. 



E'ndosperm: the albumen of the seed, 



