GLOSSARY 



BOTANICAL TERMS 



Abortive. Producing no fruit. 



Abrupt. Terminating suddenly, as if cut off; as in the root of 

 Sanguinaria Canadensis. 



Abruptly pinnate. Pinnate with even pairs only. Wanting the 

 odd or terminal leafet. 



Acerose. Stitf, linear, and sharp, as in the leaves of the Pines. 



Acicular. Needle shaped. 



Acinaciform. Shaped like a scimetar. Linear, crooked, and 

 sharp edged. 



Acinus. One of the protuberances which make up a compound 

 berry, as in the Blackberry. 



Acolyledonous. Having no cotyledons or seed lobes; as ferns. 



Aculeate. Prickly. 



Aculens. A prickle ; growing to the bark, not to the wood. 



Acuminate. Ending in a long, produced, sharp point. More 

 than acute ; as in the leaves of the common Elm. 



Acute. Ending in a sharp point. 



Adnate. Growing to. Affixed laterally. 



Agglomerated. Bunched. Crowded together. 



Aggregate. Standing together, many on the same receptacle, 

 but not compound. 



Alated. See Winged. 



Albumen. A tough, hard or fleshy substance which forms the 

 bulk of certain monocotyledonous seeds. 



Algm. An order of the class Cryptogamia, containing the sea 

 weeds, &c. 



Alternate, Placed alternately on opposite sides of the stem. 



Alveolate. With cells like those of a honey comb. 



Anient, or Catkin. A collection of small scales, serving for ca- 

 lyces, on the side of a slender stalk ; as in the Hazle, Wil- 

 low, &.C 



Amplexicaul. See Clasping. 



Ancipital. Two edged. 



Androgynous. Having barren and fertile flowers on the same 

 spike, or the same plant, but no perfect ones. 



