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Dissepiments; 
ovary. 
Distichous; two-ranked. 
Distinct; free, not combined. 
Divaricate; widely spreading or divergent. 
Divided; cut into divisions down to the base or 
midrib. g 
Dorsal; pertaining to the back of an organ. 
Downy; covered with soft and short hairs. 
Drupaceous; like or pertaining to a drupe. 
Drupe; a stone-fruit, that is the outer part soft, 
fleshy or fibrous, the inner part hard and 
bony. 
the partitions of a compound 
Ebracteate; without bracts. 
Ebracteolate; without bractlets. 
Echinate; armed with prickles. 
Edge; the margin or outline, as of a leaf. 
Ellipsoid; a solid body showing an ellipse in 
longitudinal section and a circle in cross 
section. : 
Eliptic; oval or oblong, with the ends regularly 
rounded. 
Emarginate; notched at the apex. 
Endemic; confined to a country. 
Endocarp; the inner layer of the pericarp. 
Endosperm; the albumen of a seed. 
Entire; the margins continuous, 
toothed, notched, or divided. 
Ephemeral; lasting for a day or less. 
Epigynous; upon the ovary. 
Epiphyte; a plant growing on another plant, 
but not nourished by it. 
Epiphytic; relating to epiphytes. 
Equal; alike in number or length. 
Equilateral; equal-sided. 
Erect; upright, perpendicular. 
Evident; clearly visible. 
Exalbuminous; destitute of albumen. 
Excurrent; running out as when a midrib pro- 
jects beyond the apex of a leaf. 
Exindusiate; without an indusium. 
Exserted; protruding, as the stamens extending 
beyond the corolla. 
Exstipulate; destitute of stipules. 
External; outward. 
Extra-axillary; out of the axil, 
flowers etc. 
Extrorse; turned or opening outward. 
not at all 
applied to 
Falcate; a leaf or other flat body curved, its 
edges parallel. 
Fascicle; a close cluster. 
Fascicled; growing in a bundle or cluster. 
Female; a flower or plant bearing pistils only. 
Ferruginous; resembling iron-rust in color. 
Fertile; fruit-bearing, or capable of it. 
Fertilization; the process by which 
causes the embryo to be formed. 
Filament; the stalk of a stamen, 
slender thread-shaped body. 
Filiform; thread-shaped. 
Fimbriate; fringed. 
Flabelliform or Flabellate; fan-shaped. 
Flaccid; limp, flabby. 
Flagellate or Flagelliform; long, narrow, and 
flexible. 
pollen 
also any 

Fleshy; composed of firm pulp or flesh. 
Floating; swimming on the surface of water. 
Foliaceous; belonging to, or of the texture or 
nature of a leaf. 
Foliate; provided with leaves: Latin prefixes 
denote the number of leaves, as bifoliate, 
trifoliate. 
Foliolate; relating to or bearing leaflets; trifo- 
liolate, with three leaflets, ete. 
Follicle; a simple pod, opening down the inner 
suture. y 
Follicular; resembling or belonging to a fol- 
licle. 
Forked; branched in two or three divisions. 
Free; not united with any other parts of a 
different sort. 
Frond; the leaves of ferns. 
Fruit; the matured ovary and all it contains or 
is connected with. 
Frutescent; somewhat shrubby; 
shrub. 
Fugacious, lasting but a short time. 
Fulvous, tawny. 
Funnel-shaped; expanding gradually upward 
into an open mouth, like a funnel. 
Furfuraceous; covered with bran-like fine scurf. 
Furrowed; marked by longitudinal channels or 
grooves. 
Fusiform; spindle-shaped. 
becoming a 
Gamopetalous; of united petals. 
Gamosepalous; of united sepals. 
Geniculate; bent abruptly, like a knee. 
Glabrate; becoming glabrous with age, or 
almost glabrous. 
Glabrous; smooth, in the sense of having no 
hairs, bristles, or other pubescence. 
Glands; small organs in the leaves, ete., which 
secrete oily or aromatic or other products. 
Glandular; furnished with glands, or gland-like. 
Glaucescent; slightly glaucous, or bluish-gray. 
Glaucous; covered with a bloom, that is, with a 
fine, white, waxy powder that rubs off, 
Globose; nearly spherical. 
Glomerate; closely aggregated 
cluster. 
Glume; the floral coverings of grasses. 
Gregarious; many specimens of the same 
species growing together. 
Gynaeceum; the pistils taken together. 
Gynandrous; the stamens united with the pistil. 
Gynophore; a stalk raising a pistil above the 
stamens. 
into a dense 
Habit; the general appearance of a plant. 
Habitat; the place in which a plant grows. 
Hastate; halberd-shaped. 
Head; a dense, usually globose inflorescence. 
Heart-shaped; the form of a heart. 
Herb; a plant that is not woody, and with no 
persistent parts above ground. 
Herbaceous; the texture of an herb as opposcd 
to woody. 
Hermaphrodite; a perfect flower, that is, a 
flower having both stamens and pistils. 
Heterogamous; a head containing two different 
kinds of flowers. 
