GLOSSARY. 9 
Double - flowers, so-called ; when the petals are unduly multiplied. 
Downy, clothed with a coat of soft hairs. 
Drupe, a stone fruit—like the plum, peach, cherry, etc. 
Drupaceous, partaking of the nature of a drupe. 
Ducts, closed channels, 
Dumose, bushy. 
Dwarf, low in stature. 
E or £x, when beginning compound words, signifies an absence of; as, edentate, toothless; 
exstipulate, destitute of stipules. 
Ebracteate, without bracts. 
Echinate, armed with prickles (the pod of Azsculus Hippocastanum, plate 44). Achinulaie, 
a diminutive of it. (Plate 93, fig. 7.) 
Effete, past bearing (as the anther of fig. 4, plate 110). 
laters, the erectile appendages of the spores of Equisetum. (Plate 179, fig. 6.) 
Elliptical, oval or oblong, with the ends regularly rounded. (Plate 61, fig. 1.) 
Emarginate, notched at the apex (the white, involucral lobes of plate 71). 
Emobryo, the rudimentary plantlet in the seed. (Plate 140, fig. 10.) 
Endocarp, the inner layer of the walls of a fruit. 
Endogenous, when the stem exhibits no distinction as to bark, wood and pith, the woody 
fibre and vessels being in bundles and scattered in the cellular tissue, 7. ¢., “inside 
growing. ” 
Endosperm, the same as Albumen, which see. 
Enneandrous, having nine stamens. 
Ensiform, sword-shaped (as the leaves of plate 173). 
Entire, when the margins of an organ are not at all toothed, cut, or divided, but perfectly 
even (as in the leaves of plate 170). 
Ephemeral, lasting a day or less. 
Ept-, upon; as 
Epicarp, the exterior layer of a fruit. 
Epidermis, the covering of an organ—its external skin. 
Epig@ous, growing close upon the ground. 
Epigynous, upon the ovary (as seen in fig. 2, plate 61). 
Epipetalous, borne upon the petals (as the filaments in fig. 3, plate 172). 
Lpiphyllous, borne upon a leaf. : 
Equal, of the same number or length, as the case may be, of the body in comparison. 
Equitant, riding astraddle (as the bases of the leaves, plate 171). 
Erose, as if gnawed. age i 
Essential Organs of the flower, those absolutely necessary to fertilization, 7. ¢., the stamens 
and pistils. i 
Estivation, see Aistivation. 
Evergreen, keeping its leaves until replaced by others, or even longer. 
Exalbuminous, without albumen. 
Excurrent, said of a tree when the trunk is traceable to the very top. (Plate 163, fig. +) 
Exogenous, plants with stems composed of bark, wood and pith, z. ¢., “ outside growing.” _ 
Explanate, spread, or flattened out. (Plate 25, fig. 9.) = oe 
Exserted, protruding out of; said of stamens and pistils when surpassing the Rorat seas 
(see figs. 3 and 4, plate 33). 
Exstipulate, destitute of stipules. 
