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GLOSSARY. 



cuneate when wedge-shaped. 



obtuse with blunt tip. 



actite with sharp point. 



acwninate ... with long drawn out point (leaflets in t. 67). 



imuronate ... the midrib prolonged as a tiny point. 



emarginate or when indented at the point. 



notched, 



entire .. ... if the margin is perfectly even. 



serrate if there are teeth pointing forward (t. 212). 



crenate if there are rounded teeth. 



lohed if the margin is much waved. 



■pectinate deeply jagged, like a comb. 



coriaceous ... when thick and firm or leathery. 



scarious when thin and papery. 



glabrous when the surface is smooth without hairs. 



scabrid when the surface is roughened by low hard hairs, 



tomentose ... when covered with a close mat of short hairs. 



pubescent ... when thinly covered with soft short hairs. 



The Flowering Part or Inflorescence. 



raceme an arrangement of flowers one above another, on short 



stalks : the stem continuing to grow and produce 



buds at the top (t. 12). 



spike similar, but the flowers not stalked (t. 251). 



cyme typically of three flowers, the middle one opening first : 



the main stem ending in a flower, while a second 



and third flower are produced just below in the axils 



of bracts (t. i). 

 scorpioid cy7ne ... a double row of flowers along a stalk which is curled 



up backwards at first (as in Heliotrope or t. 194). 

 corymb a flat-topped bunch. Strictly speaking a flattened 



raceme but also of cymose bunches (t. 165). 

 panicle a branched raceme, or mixture of raceme and cyme 



(tt. I, 63). 

 umbel ... ... the flowers on stalks arising together at one spot 



(tt. 20, 44) ; usually compound — an umbel of umbels 



(t. 129). 



fascicle a close cluster, with or without stalks (t. 61). 



head ... ... a close mass of flowers with bracts below, 



involucre cup of bracts below a head (t. 148). 



bract small leaf-like or very small organs. When flowers 



are not solitary the stalks nearly always arise in the 



axils of bracts. 

 bracteoles ... bracts on the flower-stalk. 



pedicel ... ... the stalk of a single flower. 



peduncle the common stalk of several flowers. 



