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Hert.—A plant which possesses very little woody stem above ground and 
usually dies down in the autumn or after flowering, and is annual or perennial. 
Kecl. ~The two more or less combined petals, forming together an angle as in 
the Pea. 
Laneeolate-—Of leaves nearly ovate, but tapering to both ends, and broadest 
below the middle. 
Leafle/s.—The articulated (jointed) primary divisions of a pinnate compound 
leaf and the secondary divisions of a bipinnate leaf. 
Ligulate.—Strap-shaped. 
Linear.—Narrow with almost parallel edges. 
Lobe.—The division of a leaf, of a leaflet or of a petal. 
Nut.—A large one-seeded unopening dry fruit. 
Nutlet.—A small one-seeded dry unopening fruit, or one of the divisions 
of the fruit of the Boraginacee or Labiate. 
Oppostte.—When a leaf has one or more leaves at the same level and usually 
on the opposite side of the branch. 
Ovate.—.« gg-shaped. 
Palmate.—Uobed in the shape of a hand. 
Pappus.—The calyx of the Composit, formed of hairs, bristles or scales. ® 
Parasite—A plant that grows upon another and derives its nourishment 
from it. 
Pervanth.- —The floral envelopes—corolla and calyx, but often used to denote 
the floral envelope, when the flower possesses only one. 
Peltate.-- Applied to a leaf when its stalk (petiole) is within the margin. 
Petals.—The parts of the corolla. 
Pinnate.—Compound leaves with leaflets arranged like the pinnules of a 
feather along both sides and at the end of a common stalk are styled pinnate. 
Pinule or Pinna.—One of the primary divisions of a bipinnate leaf. 
Raceme.—A collection of flowers, nearly equally stalked and arranged singly 
along a common stalk. 
Rhizome—A creeping, generally underground, stem giving off erect stems 
at intervals. 
Sepais.—The parts of a calyx. 
Sessale.—Stalkless. 
Shrub.—A woody perennial plant of not more than 30 feet in height and 
much branched down to the level of the ground ; this includes undershrubs. 
Simple.—Applied to leaves which are undivided. 
Spadiz.—A spike of flowers enclosed in a leafy bract (spathe). 
Spathe.—-A leafy bract enclosing a spike of flowers. 
Spathulate.—Applied to a leaf that is obiong and tapers down into a.stalk. 
Spike—A collection of sessile flowers on a common simple or branched 
stalk. 
