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Diffuse ; spreading widely or loosely. 
Digitate ; fingered, 74. 
Digynous, 151. 
Dimerous, 157. 
Dimidiate 5 halved. * 
Dioecious, 140. 
Dipetalous ; of 2 petals. 
Diphyllous ; of 2 leaves. 
Disci*form 5 disk-shaped, flat and cir¬ 
cular. 
Discoid, p. 184. 
Disk, 154, p. 184. 
Dissected ; deeply cut into fine lobes. 
Dissepiments, 167. 
Distichous, 87. 
Distinct 5 unconnected, 135, 153. 
Divaricate ; widely diverging. 
Divided, 65. 
Divisions, 65. 
Dodecandrous, 146. 
Dorsal 5 borne on the back. 
Dorsal suture, 164. 
Downy 5 clothed with fine soft hairs. 
Drupaceous ; drupe-like. 
Drupe, 182, 201. 
Ducts, 9. 
Dur&men, 50. 
E, Ex, in composition ; destitute of. 
Eared ; having 2 small rounded lobes 
at the base. 67. 
Ebracteate ; destitute of bracts. 
Ebracteolate ; destitute of bractlets. 
E'chinate; beset with rigid prickles. 
Elaters, p. 678. 
Elliptical, 66 . 
Emarginate ; with a notch at the apex. 
Embryo, 15, 97, 217. 
E'mersed; rising out of the water. 
E'ndocarp, 201. 
E'ndogen, Endogenous, 52. 
E'ndostome, 174. 
Enneandrous, 146. 
Entire, 62. 
Ephemeral; lasting but a day. 
E'picarp; the outer layer of a peri¬ 
carp. 
Epidermis ; the skin, 47. 
Eplgynous, 154. 
Epipetalous : growing on petals. 
E'piphytes, 24. 
E'quitant, 81. 
Erose ; eroded 5 minutely toothed as 
if gnawed. 
Etiolated 5 blanched. 
Exalbuminous, 213. 
Excurrent, running out beyond. 
E'xocarp, 201. 
E'xogens, Exogenous, 48. 
E'xostome, 174. 
Exserted ; projecting out beyond the 
orifice. 
Exstipulate, 95. 
Extrorse ; turned outward, 144. 
Falcate; plane and curved, with par¬ 
allel edges, like a scythe or sickle. 
Family, 241, 247. 
Farinaceous ; mealy, 215. 
Fascicle, 122. 
Fascicled, 90. 
Fasciculated, 22. 
Fastigiate; flat-topped, applied to a 
cluster. 
Favose ; honeycombed. 
Feather-veined, 72. 
Fertile, 140. 
Fertilization, 179. 
Fibrous, 19. 
Filament, 142. 
Filiform; slender and thread-like. 
Fimbriate ; fringed on the margin. 
Fistulous; a cylindrical body, hollow. 
Flab^lliform; fan-shaped; plaited 
like si fan 
Flag^lliform ; long, slender, and sup¬ 
ple, like a lash. 
Fleshy, 20. 
Flexuous ; bent or curved right and 
left alternately. 
Floccose ; covered with loose cot¬ 
tony tufts. 
Floral envelopes, 127. 
Floral leaves, 84. 
Florets; the separate small flowers 
of a cluster or head. 
Floriferous; flower-bearing. 
Flower, 98, 127. 
Flower-bud, 98. 
Flowering Plants, 2. 
Flowerless Plants, 2, 226. 
Foliaceous; leaf-like in texture. 
Foliate; with leaves. 
Follolate ; applied to leaflets, as 3- 
foliolate, &c. 
Follicle, 185. 
Foremen, 174. 
Fov£olate; pitted. 
Free; not adherent to any other or¬ 
gan. 
Free central placenta, 170. 
Frond; stem and leaf confluent to¬ 
gether, 229, and p. 641. 
Fruit, 181. 
Fugacious; falling away very early. 
Funiculus, 174. 
Funnel-shaped, 139. 
Furcate ; forked. 
Fusiform, 21. 
