GLOSSARY. 



Accumbent — Applied to the cotyledons when so arranged that their edges 



are next the radicle. 



Achene — A one-seeded indehiscent seed-like fruit as in the buttercup. 



Acicular — Needle-shaped. 



Acuminate — Ending in a long point. 



Acute — Sharp-pointed. 



Adnate — United to another organ throughout its length. 



Adpressed — Closely applied to a surface. 



iEstivation — The mode in which the flower is folded in the bud. 



Araplexicaul— Embracing the stem. 



Apocarpous — When the pistil is composed of separate carpels. 



Arillus — An extra covering on the seed, a growth from the placenta, e.g. 

 Mace is the arillus of the nutmeg. 



Articulated— Jointed. 



Auricled — With an ear-like appendage as the lobes at the base of some leaves. 



A-wn — A bristle or slender prolongation of an organ, e.g. the ' beard ' of oats 

 or barley. 



Axil — The upper angle between a leaf and the stem. 



Axile — When the placenta occupies the point of junction of the dissepiments 

 in the centre of the ovary. 



Axillary— Growing in the axil of a leaf. 



Basilar — Growing from the base of an organ, as the style in Boraginacese 

 and Labiatae, 



Bifarious — In two rows. 



Bifid — Divided nearly to the middle. 



Bilocular — Having two cavities. 



Bipinnate — Applied to a pinnate leaf the divisions of which are also pinnate. 



Bipinnatifid — Applied to a simple pinnatilid leaf the divisions of which are 

 also pinnatifid. 



Biternate — Applied to a ternate leaf each division of which is also ternate. 



Bract — A leaf more or less resembling the ordinary leaves from the axil of 

 which a flower grows. 



