250 GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED IN DESCRIPTIONS. 



Exfoliate. Peeling oft" in plates. 



Exserted. Protruding beyond the siuTouuding envelop. 



Fimbriate. Fringed. 



Fimform. Spindle-shaped. 



Gibbous. Swelled on one side. 



Glabrous. Smooth. 



Glaucous. Covered with bloom, as a cabbage leaf. 



Hirsute. Hairy with long, straight hairs. 



Hispid. Bristly with stiff hairs. 



Hoary. See Canescent. 



Inflated. Swollen and bladder-like. 



Lenticular. Xearly flat, but somewhat convex on both sides. 



Nodulose. Knobbed. 



Odd-pinnate. With a single, terminal leaflet. 



Puberulent. Very minutely downy. 



Pubescent. Hairy with short, fine, and soft hairs. 



Punctate. ]\Iinutely dotted. 



Reticidated With a network of veins. 



Rosulate. Flat, roselike. 



Rugose. Roughened with wrinkles. 



Saprophytic. Living on dead vegetable matter. 



Scabrous. Rough. 



Scape. A peduncle arising from the surface of the ground. 



Scarious. Thin and papery. 



Sessile. Not stalked. 



Setaceous. Bristle-like. 



Sinus. The space between two lobes. 



Stipe. The stalk of a pistil or ovary. 



Subulate. Awl-shaped. 



Terete. Cylindrical. 



Tomentose. Clothed with woolly hairs. 



Torulose. Twisted. 



Villous. Clothed with long and soft hairs. 



