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BOTANICAL TERMS. 43 
ACOTYLEDONES, seeds without lobes, and ofcourse, when 
___ they vegetate, they produce no seminal leaves, 
AcULEATUS, prickly. 
ACULEI, prickles. 
AcuMINATUM, (fol.) tapering to a point. 
AcuTE (acutus) tapering gradually to a slender, but not a 
prickly or a thorny termination, as the leaves of the Jessa- 
mine, or the segments of the cup of the Primrose. See 
pl. 3. f. 10; or pl: 7h 4Mi : 
Acutus, acute. 
ADNATUS, connected. 
ADPRESSUS, contiguous, prefsed to, or laid to. 
ADSCEN DENS, ascending. 
AEQUALIS, equal. 
AGGREGATE (aggregatus) when a number of little flowers or 
florets, are so disposed as to form one. compound flower : 
all of them either inclosed within one common calyx, or 
situated upon one common receptacle; so that none of 
them can be taken away without destroying the uniformity 
of the whole. Thus, the flowers of Tesi, Parsley, Teasle, 
_ Scabious, Daisie, are aggregate; several Bsa. flowers, or 
florets, combining to form one large 
Arr-Bac, (folliculus) a distended bladder-tke" “seod-yelsel, 
opening on one side, asin the Periwinkle, or Bladder-Sena. 
It is also used to L ES other kinds of distended air- 
vefsels, 3 { : 
ALZ, wings, 
ALATus, winged seed, stem, or leaf-stalk. 
ALBURNUM, a soft white substance, found i in trees, between 
the inner bark and the wood, composed of layers of the 
former, which have not yet attained the soli of the 
- latter. In this state, dealers in timber call it the sap... 
AxGx, the name of the third order of the clafs Cryptogamia, 
ALTERNATE (alternus) branches, or leaves, or flowers, spring- 
ing out regularly one above another, as the leaves of 
Borrage, or Chequered Daffodil. Pi. 9. f. 3. a d. d. d. d.) 
PL. 8. f. 54. 
ALVEOLATUM, see favosum. 
AMENTUM, Catkin. 
AMPLEXICAULIS, cmnbeneing. thy: stom. je 
ANCEPS, two-edged. 
ANDROGYNA (planta) Scansin-s some : ivan with stamens — 
only, and some with pistils only, on the same root, without 
any mixture of such as are hermaphrodite. Of this we 
have examples in the melon and cucumber. . 
ANGIOSPERMIA, seeds in a capsule, as in the ‘second order, of 
the clafs Didynamia. 
AncuLar (angulatus) stem, &c. having edges. or, corners 
opposed-to cylindrical. A stem or stalk. PS have. : ag 
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