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APPENDIX C. 



A SHORT GLOSSARY OF BOTANICAL TERMS. 



Acorose. 



Aclilamydcous. 



Acliene. 



Acini. 



Acotylodonous. 



Acrogens. 



Aculeate. 



Aculei. 



AdDatc. 



..S^stivation. 



Alate. 



Albumen. 



Alro. 



Altoniatc. 



Amphigous. 



Anatropous. 



Anisogynous. 



Anisostemonous. 



Aunulus. 



Androecium. 



Anther. 



Antheridium. | 

 Antlieridia. ) 



Antherozoa. 



Antherozoids 



Apiculato. 



Apricaijious. 



Apetalous. 



Apothecia. 



Arcliegonia. 



Arillus. 



Needle-shaped. 



A flower which has neither cahjx nor corolla. 



A dry indehisccnt fruit, with a single free seed not adhering to 



the pericarp, such as in the strawbeny (seeds) and rose. 

 Small fleshy drupes, as the fruit of the raspberry. 

 Cryptogamous plants, which produce no cotyledons in germinating. 

 C'ryi^togams, ■«'hioh grow at the extremity only, as ferns and 



mosses. 

 Pri-kly. 

 Prickles. 

 The anther is so, when its cells are confluent witli the connective 



throughout their length. 

 The arrangement of the floral organs in the bud. 

 "Winged. 



A vegetable product, tinged yellow or brown by iodine. 

 See Papilionaceous. 

 See Leaf. 



Thallogcns, wldch see. 

 See Ovule. 

 See Isogynous. 



A plant with more or fewer stamens than petals. 

 In mosses, the separable border of the peristome of the fruit. 

 The whorl within or above the corolla. 

 The blade of a stamen containing the pollen. 

 Microscopic closed sacs, which when ripe open at some point and 



discharge a cloud of flattened thread-like bodies, very active, 



and the essential elements of fertilization. 



The active filamentous bodies discharged from the antheridium. 



Ending in a point. 



See Fruit. 



A flower when it has a mowichlamijcleoiis perianth. 



The organs of fructification in Lichens. Composed of sporangia or 



sacs containing spores. 

 Microscopic sacs, open at one end, and containing a vesicle, which 



is fertilized by contact with one or more antherozoa. 

 An accessory development which covers the seed, generally after 



fertilization, without adhering to the testa. 



