APPENDIX II. 



Imbricate, overlapping, with one sepal, petal, etc., outside 

 all the others (i.e., its margins are free) and one inside all 

 the others. 



Incised, deeply cut. 



Incurved, with the ends curved inwards or towards the 

 axis. 



Indefinite, of varying number and usually numerous. 



Indehiscent, not opening by valyes or pores. The libera- 

 tion of the seeds of an indehiscent fruit takes place through 

 the consumption of the fruit by animals, or through the 

 rotting of the pericarp. 



Indumentum, the clothing of hairs, scales, etc, 



Induplicate, rolled inwards on both sides. 



Inferior, an inferior calyx, stamens, etc., implies insertion 

 at a level below, or near, the base of the ovary ; an inferior 

 ovary implies that the sepals, stamens, etc., are inserted on 

 the torus at a level above, or near the top of the ovary. 

 Cp. epigynous. 



Inflorescence, an axis or assemblage of axes especially 

 devoted to the bearing of flowers and including the flowers 

 and their bracts and bracteoles. 



Infructescence, an assemblage of fruits including in many 

 cases the more less modified axes which bear them. 



Infundibular, funnel-shaped, having the lower part tubular 

 and gradually widening upwards^ as in a chemical funnel. 



Innate, said of stamens in which there is a distinct transi- 

 tion from, or articulation between, the anther and the fila- 

 ment in contradistinction to one in which the connective 

 appears merely as a continuation of the filament. Cp. adnate. 



Infegument, one of the coats or envelopes of the nucellus 

 of the ovule. There may be one or two integuments which 

 grow up frOm the base of the ovule completely investing the 

 nucellus with tjie exception of a minute channel at the tip 



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