GLOSSARY 477 



Incised. Cut sharply and irregularly and more or less deeply. 



Included. Not at all protruded from the surrounding envelope. 



Incomplete flower. One from which any of the four series is missing. 



Indefinite. Inconstant in number or very numerous. 



Indehiscent, Not opening by halves. 



Indigenous. Original to the region. 



Inferior. Lower or below; outer or anterior. 



Inflorescence. The flowering part of a plant, flower-cluster; more ac- 

 curately the mode of flowering. 



Inserted. Attached to or growing out of. 



Insertion. Method of attachment. 



Internode. The portion of a stem between two nodes. 



Introduced. Brought intentionally from another region for purposes of 

 cultivation. 



Introse. Turned inward or toward the axis. 



Involucre. A circle or collection of bracts surrounding a flower-cluster 

 or head. 



Involute. Rolled inward. 



Irregular. Showing inequality in the size, form or union of its similar 

 parts, 



Laciniate. Slashed; cut into narrow pointed lobes. 



Lanceolate. Shaped like a lance-head, several times longer than wide, 



broadest above the base and narrowed to the apex. 

 Latent. Said of a bud which remains dormant. 

 Leaflet, A single division of a compound leaf. 

 Lenticular. Of the shape of a double-convex lens. 

 Linear. Long and very narrow, with parallel margins. 

 Lol)e. Any segment of an organ, especially if rounded. 

 Lobed. Divided into or bearing lobes. 



Male. Sterile; staminate. 



Mammiform. Said of fleshy nipple-like protuberances. 



Median. Said of stamens in the middle of the calyx-tube. 



Midrib. The central or main rib of a leaf. 



Monoecious. With stamens and pistils in separate flowers on the same plant. 



Mucro. A short and small abrupt tip. 



Mucronate. Tipped with a mucro. 



Nectary. Any place or organ which nectar secretes. 



Nerve. An unbranched vein or slender rib. 



Node. The place upon a stem which normally bears a leaf or whorl of 

 leaves. 



Nut. A hard indehiscent 1-celled and 1-seeded fruit, though usually result- 

 ing from a compound ovary. 



Nutlet. A diminutive nut, but not necessarily of the same morphology. 



Oblique. Unequal sided or slanting. 



Oblong. Longer than broad and with nearly parallel sides. 



Obovate. Inverted ovate. 



Obsolete. Not evident: rudimentary. 



