100 PRACTICAL BOTANY. 



Deplexed : bent downward. 



Dehiscence : the mode of splitting at maturity, a term applied to 



pods and anthers. 

 Dehiscent : opening by regular splitting. 

 Dentate: toothed. 

 Denticulate: finely toothed. 

 Depressed : pressed down. 

 Di- (in Greek compounds) : two. 

 DiANDROUS : with 2 stamens. 

 DiCHOTOMOus or DicHOTOJiAL : two-forked. 

 Diclinous : having the stamens in one sort of flowers, the pistils In 



another. These diclinous or separate flowers are either monoecious 



or dioecious. 

 Dicotyledons : Plants with a 2- (rarely several-) leaved caibryo. The 



Dicotyledons are also called Exogens. 

 DiDYNAMOUS STAMENS : 4 stamcns in two pairs, and one pair shorter. 

 Diffuse : spreading widely and irregularly. 

 Digitate leaflets : borne on the apex of the common leaf-stalk. 



Digitate is the same vl^ fingered — that is, resembling the fingers of 



the hand. A digitately divided leaf: a leaf not parted as far as to 



the summit of the petiole. 

 Dkecious : diclinous flowers on separate plants of a species, one 



bearing the staminate, the other the pistillate ones. 

 Disk: 1, a fleshy expansion of the receptacle of a distinct flower; 



2, the central part of the receptacle of Composites. 

 Dissected : cut deeply into numerous segments. 

 Dissepiment: partition. 

 Distinct : separate, not united by growth. 

 Divaricate : straddling, widely divergent. 

 Divided : cut into segments about to the base, or the midrib. 

 Dodeca (in Greek compounds) : twelve. 

 DoDECANDROus : with 12 stamens. 

 Dorsal and Dorsally : on or from the back. 

 Downy : clothed with short, soft hairs. 



Drupe: stone-fruit, a fleshy, succulent fruit, containing one or seve- 

 ral stones or nutlets (not seeds, like the berry). 

 Drupaceous : drupe-like. 



Echinate : awned with bristles or prickles. 

 Emarginate : notched at the summit. 



