^1 GENERAL PRINCIPLES. 



Fetal, parts or leaves of the Corolla, monopetal or peripetal 

 having only segments ; 2—3—4—5 petal, having as many leaves 

 or petals \polypetal having many petals. 



Per€7mial, lasting several years. 



Persistent, not falling oft' 



Petiole, support of the leaf: petiolate having a petiole. 



Phoranthe, the central part of compound flowers bearm? the 



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Pinnate, leaves having many foliolcs. 

 Pinnatifid, having many deep lateral segments. 

 Piiinnle, the segments of pinnatifid parts. 



Polygamous^ having complete flowers, as well as some either 

 S^amjnate or pistillate, 



PomCi fruit similar to an apple. 

 Raceme, a spike with pedicels to the flowers, 

 Radiate, having rays or ligulate flowers around the florets. 

 Radical, growing from the root. 

 Ramose^ branching, divided into branches. I 



Receptacle, the place where the seeds are attached. 

 Reniform, shaped like a kidney. 

 Refuse, blimt and notched. 

 Rugose, wrinkled or roughened by nerves, ice, 

 Rimcinate, cut up into sharp segments like a barbed arrow. 

 Sagittate, shaped like a forked arrow, 

 Scape\ stern, surrounded by radical leaves. 

 Segment, a part not quite divided. 

 Sepals, the folioles of the Calix or Perigone. 

 Sessile, having no support. 

 Serrate, toothed like a saw. 

 Stliq7i€, the pods of Turnip, Cabbage, &c. 

 Sinnafey having sinuses. t 



Solitary, standing by itself. 



Sjyadixy a thick support of many crowded flowers, } 



Spatha, Involucre surrounding a Spadix, or involving flowers. 

 Spur, a hollow appendage to some flowers. 

 Stipule, appendage to some leaves. t 



Subulate, shaped like an awl. 

 SiiperioTy standing above something. 

 Terminal, standing at the end, 

 Ternate, three by three. , , 



Tomentose^ covered with woolly hairs like cloth. 

 Trioical, bearing complete, staminate and pistilate flowers ii^ 

 three different individuals. ' 





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Tuberous, thick roots like Potatoes and Turnips. 

 " ' forming a tube. 



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Carrot and Fennel. 



umbrella 



Undulate, having waved margins. 



Veins, fibres of leaves not prominent like nerves. 



Verticillatet forming whorls. 



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