GLOSSARY OF BOTANICAL TERMS. 
A 
Acgrosg, chaffy 
Acicular, needle-shaped 
Aciniform, scimitar-shaped 
Aculeate, prickly 
Adnate, adhering 
Aggregate, many flowers included 
in one calyx 
Alate, winged 
Androgynous, bearing male and fe- 
male flowers, distinct on the same 
root 
Anther, summit of the stamen, con- 
taining the pollen 
Apetalous, without petals 
Apophysis, a swelling beneath the 
capsule of a moss 
Appressed, squeezed close 
Arborescent, becoming woody 
Arboreous, woody 
Arcuate, bowed 
Articulate, jointed 
Ase small tubes in which the seeds 
of some ¢ amic plants are 
sie ryptog Pp 
Attenuated, growing slender 
Auriculated, ear-shaped 
Awn, a beard, sharp process, issuing 
from chaff in corn and seeds 
Awnless, without beard 
Axillary, flowers, etc., proceeding 
from an angle formed by a branch 
with a stem 
B 
Beaded, ulated 
Beaked, like a bird’s beak 
Bearded, beset with parallel hairs, 
or tufts of hair 
Bicapsular, having two capsules 
Biennial, living two years 
Bifid, two-cleft, cloven 
Bifarious, pointing from opposite 
sides 
Bilabiate, blossom with two lips 
Bilocular, having two cells 
Binate, in pairs 
Bipartite, deeply divided into two 
parts 
Bipinnate, double-winged 
Biternate, doubly three-fold 
Bivalved, two-valved 
Border, the upper spreading part of 
a monopetalous flower 
Bractea, floral leaf, may often be 
mistaken for the calyx, but is 
more permanent 
Bulbiferous, flowers succeeded by 
bulbs instead of seeds 
C 
Calyptra, veil, covering the anther 
cr iaases like a biod 
Calyx, the outer covering of a flower 
Campanulate, bell-shaped 
Ganshonlete, channelled 
Cancellated, latticed 
Capillary, hair-like 
Capitate, growing in heads 
Capsule, membranous hollow seed- 
vessel 
Carinated, keeled 
Carnose, fleshy 
Catkin, flowers and chaff on a long, 
slender stalk, like a cat’s tail 
Caudate, tailed 
Caulescent, having a stem 
Cell, the hollow in a capsule for 
holding the seed 
Central florets, which occupy the 
middle part of a flower 
Chaff, dry calyx of corn and grasses 
Ciliate, fringed 
| Cirrhi, tendrils 
Cirrhose, terminating in a tendril © 
Clavated, club-shaped 
' Claw, the lower narrow part of the 
al in flowers 
Cleft, divided into parts 
Club-shaped, thinner at the base 
than the termination 
Meri joined together at the 
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