IL GLOSSARY OF BOTANICAL TERMS. 
- *,* The numbers annexed to the names, 
* 
preceding Sketch ; but those preceded by 
or their definition, refer to the paragraphs of the 
* Flora, p.” refer to the pages of the Flora. 
Abortive: not fully developed. 
Abruptly pinnate, 43. 
Accumbent: Flora, p. 24. 
Achenium, 95. 
Achlamydeous: without 
Acrogens: Flora, p. 585. ; 
Acuminate: n an into a slender point. 
Acute: pointed. 
Adherent: growing fast to another 
body. 
Adnate: same as Adherent. 
Adnate Anthers, 72. 
` Aerial Roots, 10. 
AEstivation, 68. 
Air-Plants, 11. 
gate: crowded together. 
Dum JOE o — 
floral envelopes. 
Alternate: sca‘ 
_Alveolate: deeply pitted. 
Ament, 53. saree are 
Amentaceous: bearing aments. 
Amphitropous, 88. . 
Anatropous, 83. 
An : containing both staminate 
and pistillate + gy 
Angiospermz: Flora, p. 1. 
Antoni: | lasting only one year. 
Annular: disposed in, or forming, a ring 
or circle. 
Anterior: applied to that part of an axil- 
lary flower which is farthest removed 
Anther, 71. 
Apetalous: without petals. 
Apiculate : tipped with a short 
AiD something added to a part. 
+ 
: lying near to; pressed against. 
abrupt | 
ed by a joint, —— 7 — 
Ascending: ) curving outward and up- 
y pete } cin 
Attenuated: gradually narrowed. 
— eared; bearing small lateral 
es. e E c y E 
Awl-shaped: narrow and tm inted. 
Awn: a Prid bristle-like appendage. 
Awned: bearing an awn. 
Axil: the point where the upper'surface 
of the leaf joins the stem. 
i : borne in the axil. 
Axis: the central line of a body; 
the part 
around which others grow. 
Baccate: berry-like; juicy. 
Barbed: bearing rigid points which are 
directed backward. i 
"ua 
rounded base, into 
es : 
Bifoliolate: bearing two leaflets. - 
Biglandular: bearing two glands, 
Bilabiate: two-lipped. 
Bipinnate: twice pinnate. 
Biternate: twice ternate. _ 
Bladders: small sacs filled with air. 
Blade: the ed portion of a leaf, &c. 
serge nth Cariano: Feige ae 
Brachiate : with pairs of. posite branches 
» ae at right angles. 
ract, 45. | : 
Bracted: furnished with bracts. 
Bractlet, 45. 
