320 GLOSSARY. 



Dichotomovs. Forked. Dividing into two equal branches. 



Dicoccous. Containing two grains or seeds. 



Dicotyledonous. Having two cotyledons or seed lobes. 



Didymous. Twin. 



Didynamous. Belonging to the class Didynamia ; with two 



short and two long stamens and a ringent corolla. 

 Digitate. When a petiole gives off five or more leafets from a 



single point at its extremity ; as the Lupin and Horse- 



Chesnut. 

 Dimidiate. Halved. 

 Diacious. Having the barren and fertile flowers on different 



plants. 

 Disk. The surface or top, in distinction from the edge. 

 Discoid. Having a disk covered with florets, but no ray. 

 Dissepiment. The partition or internal wall of a capsule. 

 Distichous. Growing in two opposite ranks or rows ; as the 



leaves of the Hemlock-tree (Mies). 

 Divaricate. Diverging so far as to turn backward. 

 Divergent. Spreading. Separating widely. 

 Dorsal. Growing on, or belonging to, the back. 

 Drooping. Inclining downward. More than nodding. 

 Drupe. A fleshy fruit inclosing a stone or nut ; like the cherry. 

 Drupaceous. Bearing, or resembling, drupes. 



E 



Echinate. Beset with prickles. Hedgehog like. 



Elliptic. Oval ; as the leaves of Magnolia glauca. 



Elongated Exceeding a common or average length. 



Emarginate. Having a notch in the end. 



Ensiform. Sword shaped, two edged ; as the leaves of the 

 common 7ns. 



Entire. Even and whole at the edge. 



Epidermis. See Cuticle. 



Eroded. Appearing as if gnawed at the edge. 



Esculent. Eatable. 



Evergreen. Remaining fresh through the winter. Not de- 

 ciduous. 



Exserled. Projecting or extending out of the flower or sheath \ 

 as the stamens and style of the Fuschia coccinea. 



F 



Falcate. Sickle shaped. Linear and crooked. 



Farina. The pollen. Also meal or flour. 



Fascicle . A bundle. 



Fascicled, or fasciculale. Collected in bundles. 



Fastigiale. Flat topped. 



Favose. Resembling a honey comb. 



Ferns. An order of cryptogamous plants bearing the fructifica- 

 tion commoiily on the back of the leaf, or in spikes, made 

 up of minute capsules opening transversely. 



