APPENDIX II. 



Decandrous, 10-androus, with ten stamens. 



Deciduous, falling off, cp. caducous. 



Decimate, inclined to one side, and often ascending at the 

 tip. 



Decompound, very much and repeatedly branched. 



Decumbent, having the lower part.s prostrate. 



Decurrent, prolonged downwards from the base. 



Decussate, in planes at right angles to one another. 



Definite, not varying in number. 



Deflexed, bent downwards. 



Dehisce, to open by the separation of the walls or valves. 



Dehiscent, dehiscing when ripe. 



Dentate, with teeth projecting more or less perpendicularly 

 from the margin. 



Denticulate, with little teeth, or points along the margin. 



Depressed, sank in. 



Diadelphous, 2-adelphous, in two bundles. A term 

 applied to stamens which are grouped into two lots ; one lot 

 may, however, contain only one stamen. 



Dichasium, a cymose method of branching in which each 

 axis ends in a point or flower from beneath which a pair only 

 of opposite lateral branches arise. 



Dicoccous, 2-coccous, consisting of two cocci. 



Didymous, consisting of two equal or similar connected 

 halves or lobes. In the case of anthers, the term is especially 

 applied to those with two rounded lobes without separating 

 connective. 



Didynamous, in two unequal pairs. 

 Diffuse, lax and spreading. 



Digitate, spreading like the fingers of the hand. In the 

 case of digitate leaves, each leaflet is properly provided with 



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