GLOSSARY 



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Basal, Basilar. At or pertaining to the 



base. 

 Basifixed. Attached by the base. 

 Bast. The fibrous portion of the inner 



bark. 

 Beaked. Ending in a beak or prolonged 



tip . 



Bearded. With long or stiff hairs of any 

 sort ; awns of grasses are sometimes 

 called beard. 



Berry. A fruit with pericarp wholly 

 pulpy. 



Bi- or Bis-. A Latin prefix signifying 

 two, twice, or doubly. 



Biconvex. Convex on both sides; lens- 

 shaped. 



Bidentate. Having two teeth. 



Bidentulate. Diminutive of bidentate. 

 Biennial. Of two years' duration. 



Bifid- Two-cleft. 

 Bilabiate. Two-lipped. 

 Bilocular. Two-celled. 

 Binate. Two together. 

 Bipinnate (leaf). Twice pinnate. 

 Bipinnatifid. Twice pinnatifld. 

 Biserial, Biseriate, Occupying two rows, 

 one within the other. 



Bisexual. Having both stamens and 

 pistils. 



Biternate. Twice ternate (principal divi- 

 sions 3, each with 3 leaflets). 



Bivalvular. Two-valved. 

 Bladdery. Thin and inflated. 

 Blade. The flat expanded part of a leaf. 

 Bract. A leaf, usually small, subtending 

 a flower or flower-cluster, or a sporange. 

 Bracteate. With bracts. 



Bracteolate, Having bractlets. 

 Bracteose. With numerous or conspicu- 

 ous bracts. 



Bractlet, A secondary bract, borne on a 

 pedicel, or immediately beneath a 

 flower ; sometimes apphed to minute 

 bracts. 



Bristle. A stiff hair or any similar out- 

 growth. 



Bulb. A subterranean leaf-bud with 

 fleshy scales or coats. 



Bulbiferous. Bearing bulbs. 



Bulblet. A small bulb, especially one 



borne upon the stem. 



Bulbose, Bulbous. Bulb-like in form. 



Caducous. Dropping off very early. 



Calcarate. Produced into or having a 

 spur. 



Callus, An extension of the inner scale 



of a grass spikelet ; a protuberance. 

 Calyculate. Having bracts around the 



calyx imitating an outer calyx. 

 Calyptrate. Furnished with a calyptra, 



or coming off as a lid or extinguisher. 

 Calyx. The outer of two series of floral 



leaves. 



Campanulate. Bell-shaped. 

 Campylotropous (ovule or seed). So 



curved as to bring the apex and base 



nearly together. 

 Canaliculate. Channelled ; longitudinally 



grooved, 

 Cancellate. Reticulated, with the meshes 



sunken. 

 Canescent. With gray or hoary fine 



pubescence. 

 Capillary. Hair-like in form; as fine as 



hair or slender bristles. 

 Capitate. Shaped hke a head; collected 



into a head or dense cluster. 

 Capitellate. Diminutive of capitate, 

 Capitulmn. A little head. 



Capsular. Belonging to or of the nature 

 of a capsule. 



Capsule. A dry dehiscent fruit, composed 

 of more than one carpel. 



C urinate. Keeled; with a longitudinal 

 ridge. 



Carpel. The modified leaf forming the 

 ovary, or a part of a compound ovary. 



Carpophore. The slender prolongation of 

 the floral axis which in the UmbelUferae 

 supports the pendulous ripe carpels. 



Cartilaginous. Of the texture of cartilage; 

 firm and tough. 



Caruncle. An appendage to a seed at the 

 hilum. 



Carunculate. With a caruncle. 



Caryopsis. The grain; fruit of grasses, 

 with a thin pericarp adherent to the 

 seed. 



Catkin. A scaly deciduous spike of flow- 

 ers; an ament. 



Caudate. With a slender tail-like ap- 

 pendage. 



Caudex. The persistent base of an other- 

 wise anniial herbaceous stem. 



Caudicle. Stalk of a pollen-mass in the 

 Orchid and Milkweed families. 



Caulescent. Having a manifest stem. 



Cauline. Pertaming to the stem. 



Cell. A ca\dty, of an anther or ovary. 



Chaff. Thin dry scales. 



Chaffy. Furnished with chaff, or of the 

 texture of chaff. 



Channelled. Deeply grooved longitudin- 

 ally, like a gutter. 



Chartaceous. Papery in texture. 



Chlorophyll. Green colormg matter of 

 plants. 



Choripetalous. Apphed to a corolla whose 

 petals are distinct. 



Chorisepalous. Apphed to a calyx whose 

 sepals are distinct. 



Ciliate (fohar organs) . Beset on the 

 margin with a frmge. 



Ciliolate. Minutely ciliate. 



Cinereous. Ash-grayish; the color of 

 ashes. 



Circinate. Coiled downAvard from the 

 apex. 



Circumscissile. Transversely dehiscent, 

 the top falling away as a Ud. 



Clavate. Club-shaped. 



Claw. The narrow or stalk-like base of 

 some petals. 



Cleft. Cut about half-way to the midvein. 



Cleistogamous. Fertilized in the bud, 

 without the opening of the flower. 



Coalescence. The union of parts or or- 

 gans of the same kind. 



Cochleate. Coiled or shaped like a snail 

 shell. 



Cohesion. The union of one organ with 

 another. 



Columella. A term applied to the per- 

 sistent axis of the capsule. 

 Columnar. Like a column. 



Coma. Tuft of hairs at the ends of some 

 seeds. 



Commissure. The surface by wliich one 

 carpel joins another, as in the Umbel- 

 Uferae. 



Cojnposite. A plant belonging to Cardu- 

 aceae. Cichoriaceae, or Ambrosiaceae 

 (constituting the old Compasitae). 



Concave. With the surface curved in. 



Conduplicate. Folded lengthwise. 



Conglomerate. Densely clustered. 



Coniferous. Cone-bearing. 



Connate. Similar organs more or less 

 united. 



