GLOSSARY, 



LIST OF TECHNICAL TERMS, 



Comprising all that occur in this volume, with references to the pages where the 

 meaning is explained, or more fully set forth ; together with many that occur in 

 other botanical books, and the principal adjectives used as the Latin specific 

 names of plants. The Latin generic names do not come within the scope of a 

 glossary. They have been derived from a vast variety of sources, and form an 

 independent subject of consideration. 



Specific names that end in i, such as Koehleri, (Ederi, Bohartii, are commemo- 

 rative, or given in honour of eminent botanists. Many others, spelt with an 

 initial capital, such as Millefolium, Opulus, and Ebiilus, are ancient appellations 

 of the plants, and come in the same category as the generic names. 



A few of the adjective terms used by botanists, and included in the following 

 list, have been adopted or constructed from the Greek language. To distinguish 

 them, they are marked *. 



The letters a, um, following a Latin adjective ending in us, indicate the different 

 terminations it possesses, according as it is connected with a masculine, feminine, 

 or neuter substantive. Thus, acetos«s, acetosa, acetosw??;. Adjectives ending in 

 is similarly change their final letters into e, as acris, acre. 



Abnormal, contrary to usual structure. 

 Abrupt leaf, see p. 19. 

 ♦AcAULis, stemless, i. e., having so short 

 a stem as to seem destitute of one. 



ACETOSUS, A, UM, ELLA, SOUr. 



•AcHENiuM, a seed-like fruit. See p. 38. 

 *AcHLAM\'DEous, without either calyx 



or corolla. 

 AcicuLARis, needle-shaped. 

 Acris, e, biting to tlie taste. 

 ♦AcROGENS, flowerless plants; the same 



as Cryptogamia. 

 AcuLEATus, A, UM, armed with minute 



prickles. 

 AcuMTNATE (leaf), see p. 10. 

 AcuTus, A, UM, sharp-pointed. 



Aerial, growing perched upon the stems 

 of other plants, as opposed to having 

 roots in the ground. 



growing or pai'tly so, in the air. 



as opposed to living wholly in the 

 water. 



iERUGiNOSUS, verdigris-coloured. 



AESTIVALIS, belonging to the summer. 



Agrestis, e, growing in waste and 

 ploughed land. 



Al^tus, a, ujr, fui-nished with a mem- 

 branous wing. 



Albumen (of seed), the flouiy matter 

 stored up in the seed for the nourish- 

 ment of the embryo when it germi- 

 nates. 



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