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HORTUS JA-MAICENSIS. 



order in Linneus's Fragments, in Philos. 

 Pot. und the forty-third of the Natural 

 Orders in Gen. PL 



Eared, Having an appendage like a little 

 ear. 



Eiiuacteatus. A raceme or peduncle, 

 without any bracte or floral leaf. 



Ecalcarata corolla. A corolla without any 

 spur, or spur-shaped nectary. 



EcHinatuvi. Beset with prickles like a 

 iiecioe-host. 



F.HImus. A burr, or prickly pericarp. 



Eulandulosus petiolus. A petiole without 

 glands. 



EtiKET. From. Aigrette, the French term 

 for the pappus, down, or feathery crown 

 of sonre seeds. 



Fh.AsTic pericarp. Throwing open or cast- 

 ing off its valves with a spring. 



F.MARGINaTE. Notched at the end. 



En-ervium. Nerveless 



Enneandria. Nine-stamened. The name 

 of the ninth class in the Artificial System 

 of Linneus ; comprehending such plants 

 as bear hermaphrodite flowers with nine 

 stamens. 



Exneapetala corolla. A nine-petaled co- 

 rolla. 



Enodis. Knotless. 



ENsats (ensis, a sword). The filth order 

 in Linneus's Fragments, and the sixth 

 in the Natural Orders at the end of Gen. 

 PI Containing some of the liliaceous 

 plants, which have sword-shaped leaves. 



BNS1FORM-; Sword-shaped. 



Eniire. Stem, quite single with scarce 

 any branches. 



An entire leaf. Undivided, without any 

 sinus or opening in the edge. 



Epidermis. The outer- dry and very thin 

 coat or covering of a plant, correspond- 

 ing with the scarf .skin. 



Equal. A calyx or corolla is said lobe 

 equal, when the parts are of the same 

 size and figure. 



Equitantia/o/'o.- Equitant leaves-; riding 

 as it were over each oilier. 



Erect or Upright. When applied to a 

 Stem or branch, it is not takenstric.lv, 

 but is so called, when it approaches to a 



perpendicular with the ground. WKeriaor 

 stem or branch is entirel perpendicular 

 without any bending, the word strictus- 

 is used. 



Erosum. Erase or gnawed. When a sinu-- 

 ate leaf has other very small obtuse si- 

 nuses on .its edge It has the appearance 

 of being gnawed or eaten by insects. 



Exaspkratus. Roughened. 



Expi.anatus. Unfolded, or spread out flat. 



ExSERTAs Protruded stamens or anthers. 



Exstipulvtus. Without stipules. 



ExstfCCUS. Juiceless, without juice. 



Extrafoliace/e stipulce. Exirafoliaceoua 

 stipules. Growing on the outside of the 

 leaves, or below them. 



Farctus. Stuffed, crammed, or full, with- 

 out any vacuities. 



Fascicle, a bundle. A species of inflores- 

 cence, or manner of flowering, in which 

 several upright, parallel, fastigiate, ap- 

 proximating flowers are collected, toge- 

 ther. 



Fdseicularis radix ; a fascicular or fasci- 

 cled root. A species of the tuberous, 

 with the knobs collected in bundles. 



Fasciculala tolia- ; fascicled leaves. Grow- 

 ing in bundles or bunches from the same 

 point. 



FasTIG-iaTUS. A fastigiate stem, having 

 branches of an equal height. Penduncles 

 are fastigiate, when they elevate the 

 .fructifications in a bunch, so that they 

 are all of an equal height, as if they had 

 been shorn off horizontally or, when 

 they are so proportioned as to form an,, 

 even .surface at top, like a flat roof. 



FavOSUM. Honey-combed. 



Faix. The jaws, chaps, throat, or open* 

 ing of the tube of the corolla. 



FfiR i> IHJ ttrous colour. The colour of rusty 

 iron. 



Finn 1 '. A thread or longitudinal canal, im- 

 bibing moisture from the earth. 



A branch or subdivision of a fibre is called 

 a fibril. 



Filament- The thread-like part of the 

 stamen, supporting the anther, and eon- 

 ne< ling it with the tio r 



FlLICES. Ferns. The fourth fainilj , and". 



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