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DICTIONARY . ; 
BOTANICAL TERMS, 
THE following Alphabetical List of the Terms employed by 
_Linneus, as well as of those used in this work, and by other 
~ modern Authors, will be extremely useful to the learner, | 
as “he will thus ‘be enabled to understand other botanical 
“books which he may wish to consult. ; 
‘The ladies too, who, in spite of the obstacles attendant upon @ 
~ dead language, ften “have recourse to Linneus in the 
riginal Latin, will find their researches facilitated by it. 
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A bpreviatus, a ; 
‘ABoRtivI.(flosculi) abortive. See barren. ale 
AzsRurr (abruptus) when a winged leaf ends abruptly ; ie. 
without a tendril or a little leaf, Pl, 8. fig. 53. sie 
ACAULIS, stem-lefs, : 
AcERosus, chaffy. 
AcICULARIS, needle-shaped, 
ACIN ACIFORMIS, scymetar-shaped, | 
Acry1, granulations. 
Acorn, the seed of the Oak. 
N. B. The plants referred to in this Dictionary, for the sake of illus- 
trating the different Terms, are for the most part natives of this island, 
and are quoted by their most common English names, because the reader 
who recollects them will immediately, and without further trouble, be 
able to form the right idea which the term is intended to convey ; and as 
these names are inserted in the Index, he may easily turn to them. The 
instances taken from exotic plants, are chiefly such as are cultivated in 
almost every garden, and are introduced only when an English plant was 
wanting to which the term could be properly applied, or when it was 
thought that the exotic was more commonly known, and more easily 
attainable than the native , 
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