216 GLOSSARY 



Axillary. Situati-d in an axil. 



Axis. The central support of a group of organs. 



Barbed. Furnished with short usually reflexed bristles. 



Barbellate. Minutely barbed. 



Beaked. Ending in a stout elongated tip. 



Berry. A fruit with a fleshy pericarp. 



Bidentate. Having two teeth. 



Biennial. A plant of two years' duration. 



Bilabiate. With two lips. 



Blpinnate. Twice pinnate. 



Blade. The expanded portion of the leaf. 



Bract. A usually diminutive leaf subtending a flower or group of flowers. 



Bracteate. Possessing bracts. 



Bracteolate. Possessing bractlets. 



Bractlet. A small or secondary bract. 



Bristle. A stifl" hair. 



Bud. An uuexpanded or undeveloped leaf, branch or flower. 



Bulb. A fleshy scaly leaf-bud, usually underground. 



Bulblet. A small bulb. 



Caducous. Early falling off". 



Caespitose. Growing in tufts. 



Callosity. A small hard protuberance. 



Callus. A callosity. 



Calyculate. With bracts subtending the flower imitating an outer calyx. 



Calyx. The outer floral envelope. 



Campanulate. Shaped like a bell. 



Campylotropous. A much incurved seed or ovule. 



Canescent. Covered with gray or hoary usually short fine hairs. 



Capitate. In a dense head-like cluster. 



Capsule. A dry dehiscent fruit with two or more carpels. 



Carinate. Longitudinally ridged or keeled. 



Carpel. The modified leaf forming the simple pistil, or one of the parts of 



the compound pistil. 

 Cartilaginous. Firm and tough like cartilage. 

 Caruncle. Appendage to a seed growing near the liilum. 

 Carunculate. Bearing a caruncle. 

 Caryopsis. A one-celled one-seeded fruit with the thin pericarp adnate to the 



seed. 

 Catkin. ,\ii ament. 



Caudate. Possessing a slender tail-like appendage. 

 Caudicle. The stalk of a pollen mass. 

 Caulescent. Having a stem. 

 Cell. .\ riivity. 

 Cespitose. Caespitose. 

 Cbaff. A dry and membranous scale. 

 Channelled. With a deep longitudinal groove. 

 Chartaceous. riiick papery in texture. 

 Chlorophyll. The green coloring matter in plants. 

 Ciliate. Fringed with margiiuil hairs. 



