712 PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY 
ANn’NUAL.—Producing flowers, fruit and seed within a year from the time the seed 
germinated and then dying completely. 
AN’NULAR.—Ring-like. 
ANTE’RIoR.—The front region. 
An’THER.—That portion of a stamen which bears the pollen. ‘ 
AN’THERIDIUM.— Male sexual organ of Thallophytes, Bryophytes and Pteridophytes. 
AN’THEROzOID.—A male sexual cell formed within an antheridium. 
An’THOPHORE.—A lengthened internode of the receptacle between calyx and corolla. 
ApeEtT’ALOus.—Without petals, as in the oaks, etc. 
Apocar’pous.—Carpels separate and distinct. 
Apoc’Amy.—The direct development of a sporophyte from a gametophyte without 
the functioning of sexual organs or cells. 
ApopeEt’ALous.—Petals separate and distinct. 
APposEP’ALOUs.—Sepals separate and distinct. 
Apotue’crum.—A disk like or cup-shaped fruiting organ of a lichen and some 
cup-fungi. 
ARCHEGO’NIuUM.—A multicellular female sexual organ found in the bryophytes, 
pteridophytes and gymnosperms. 
Ar’tL.—An accessory seed covering outside of the testa and arising at or about 
the hilum, as in Evonymus. 
Ar’ILLopE.—A fake accessory seed covering outside of the testa, as in Nutiinby; 
and arising from the dilatation of the micropyle. 
Aris’TATE.—Having a stiff bristle-like termination. 
ASCEND’ING.—Growing obliquely upward. 
As’cus.—A sac-like spore case of an Ascomycete fungus. 
Art’AvismM.—Reversion to ancestral type. The reappearance of a character after a 
lapse of one or more generations. 
Auric’/ULATE.—Ear-like. 
Awn.—A bristle-like structure that branches along its axis. . 
Ax’1.—Upper angle formed where the leaf joins the stem. 
Ax’ILLARY.—In the axil. 
BAc’cATe.—Berry-like. 
BAL’sAM.—A mixture of resin with cinnamic or benzoic acid or both and a volatile 
oil. 
BArs.—A short bristle usually bent back. 
BARK.—All that portion of an exogenous plant axis outside of the cambium line. 
BAst.—Applied to the phloem region but mainly to the fibrous portion thereof. 
Beav’ep.—Applied to a thickened, jointed cell wall showing in sectional view some- 
what circular areas in the wall like a row of beads, due to a close proximity of 
the pores in the wall. 
BeArp’Ep.—Furnished with long hairs. 
Ber’ry.—A fleshy fruit whose mesocarp and endocarp are fleshy and frequently 
succulent throughout, and with seeds imbedded therein, as tomato, capsi- 
cum, belladonna, etc. 
Br.—A prefix of the Latin language indicating two, twice or doubly. 
Br’coLLAT’ERAL Bun’pLE.—A collateral bundle with the xylem strand enclosed 
between two phloem strands, cambium being present or absent on either outer 
or inner face of the xylem or on both faces, 
