22 GENERAL PRINCIPLES. 



Cryptogamia, N. Y. 1826.— 3. Many Botanical Tracts.— An accu- 

 rate writer; classical works. 



TciiT, Medical Tracts in Journals, Stc. 

 ViTMAx, Summa plantarum, 6 vols, 8vo- Milan, 1789. 



■only a florula. 



Laborious heavy work on 



.the linnacan plan, carried as far as the Ferns* 



WooDvitiE, Medical Botany, in 4 vols. 4to. with coloured 

 figures, London.— Expensive work, noticing about one tenth of 

 the medical plants known. 



ZotLicKOFFER, Materia Medica of the United States. Bait. 

 1826, No descriptions, and many errors. 



Walter, 



WlLDEXI 



EXPLANATION OF SOME BOTANICAL TERMS, 



AchenCy a single seed like wheat. 

 Jicuminate, abruptly sharp. — Jlcvte, same as sharp. 

 Jldnate^ connivent or growing together. 

 Alternate^ situated on two sides, but not opposite. 

 Amenty catkin or spike of the oak, willow, &c, 



AticipitaU having two sharp sides like a sword. 

 Angular, forming angles. 

 Annual, lasting only one year. 

 Anomalous^ out of order or irregular. 



Axillary, situated at the corner between the stem and loaves- 

 Biennial, lasting two years. 

 Bijid, divided in two, trifid when in three, &c. 

 Binate^ twin leaves or flowers. 

 Braety a floral leaf, bracteole a small one. 

 Bulby scaly thick root like Onions, Tulips, &c, 

 Campanulatey shaped like a bell. 

 Capsuh a dry fruit opening by valves or holes. 

 Cellsy the internal divisions of the fruit, one celled or unilocu- 

 lar, two celled or bilocular, three celled or trilocular, &c. 

 Ciliatey having hairs on the edges. 

 Clustery or tkyrsusy a bunch of flowers or fruit, like Lilac 



Cordate, shaped like a heart. 



Corymb, umbel wun scattered shafts. 



Cuspidate or mueronate havinor a hrisOp nf iU,. «^,i 



Cylindricy long and round like a 

 Deciduous y falling off. 

 Decomposedy cut up in many sue 

 Deltoidy triangular like a Delta, 

 JDickotomey forked several times 

 Didinousj with etaminate and n 



segments 



