n. GLOSSARY OF BOTANICAL TERMS. 



*,* The numbers annexed to the names, or their definition, refer to tho paragraphs of the 

 preceding Sketch ; but those preceded by " 1'lora, p." refer to the pages of the Flora. 



Abortive: not fully developed. 



Abruptly pinnate, 43. 



Accumbent: Flora, p. 24. 



Achenhun, 95. 



Achlamydeous: without floral envelopes. 



Acrogens : Flora, p. 585. 



Acuminate: tapering into a slender point. 



Acute: pointed. 



Adherent : growing fast to another 



body. 

 Adnata: same as Adherent. 

 Adnate Anthers, 72. 

 Aerial Knots, 10. 

 Estivation, 68. 

 Air-Plante, 11. 



Aggregate: crowded together. 

 Albumen, 101. 

 Alburnum, 30. 



Alternate: scattered; one after another. 

 Alveolate: deeply pitted. 

 Anient, 53. 



Amentaceous : bearing aments. 

 Amphitropous, 83. 

 Anatropous, 83. 

 Androgynous: containing both Btaminate 



an«l pistillate Bowers. 



Flora, ]>. 1. 



Annual : lasting only one year. 



Annular: disposed in, or forming, a ring 

 or circle. 



ior: applied to thai pari of an axil- 

 i iwer h bich i farthest removed 



from the main axis. 

 Anile-. 71. 



Apetalou . v ithoul petals. 



ilate : tipped « ith a short abrupt 



point. 



■ something added to n part. 

 . lying near to; pr< 

 Aquatic : growing in water. 

 Arborescent : tree-like 

 Areolatkm:spaoee between the leaf-veins. 

 Aril, 100. 



Arilled : coven A « Ith an aril. 

 Armed: furnished with thorns, prickles, 



&c. 

 Articulated: divide,) into joint-; conneot 



ed by a joint 



Ascending: ) curving outward and up- 

 Assurgent: j ward. 

 Attenuated: gradually narrowed. 

 Auiiculate: eared: hearing small lateral 



lobes. 



Awl-shaped: narrow nml sharp-pointed. 

 Awn: a rigid liristle-like appendage. 

 Awned : bearing an awn. 

 Axil: the point where the upper surface 



of the leaf joins the stem. 

 Axillary: 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. 

 Bark- 31. 



Basal: belonging to tho base. 

 Beaked : ending in a Btout point. 

 Bearded: bearing tufts or lines of hairs. 

 Bell-shaped: expanding from a short and 



rounded base, into a spreading border. 

 Berry, 98. 



Bidentate: two-toothed. 

 Biennial : lasting two years. 

 Bifid: two-cleft. 



Bifoliolate: bearing two leaflets. 

 Bii landular: bearing two glanda. 

 Bilabiate: two lipped. 

 Bipinnate: tu ice pinnate. 

 Biternate: tw ice ternate. 

 Bladders: -mall Bacs idled with air. 

 Blade: the expanded portion of a leaf,&c. 

 Boal shaped: Bee Cannate. 

 Brachiate: « ith pairs of opposite branches 



spreading at right angle-. 

 Bract, 



I'.racted: furnished With bracts. 



Bractlet, 46. 

 Bristle: a rigid hair. 



: be-et with, or like, bristles. 



Brush-shaped: divided al the apex Into 



numerous hairs or filaments. 

 Bud, 1 1 

 Bulb, 21. 



, j .. -■ l like a bulb. 

 Bulblet, 21. 



