GLOSSARY. Ill 



Tawny: dull yellowish, or somewhat brownish. 

 Tendril: a thread-shaped, coiling appendage (a modification of a 

 branch or a leaf) to the weak stems of certain plants, serving the 

 purpose of climbing. 

 Terete : cylindrical and tapering. 

 Terminal : borne at the summit. 



Ternate : in threes. A ternate leaf: a leaf with three leaflets. 

 Terrestrial: existing on the earth. 

 Tetradynamous stamens : G stamens, 2 of them shorter than the 



rest. 

 Tetramerous : having the parts or sets in fours. 

 Tetrandrous : having 4 stamens. . 

 Throat : the orifice of a gamopetalous corolla at the junction of the 



tube and border. 

 Tomentose : clothed with matted, woolly hairs. 

 Toothed : furnished with erect teeth. 

 Torose : knobby. 



ToRULOSE : cylindrical with swells and contractions. 

 Tri-, as a prefix : three. Trifid : 3-cleft. 

 Triadelphous : filaments of the stamens in 3 clusters. 

 Triandrous : with 3 stamens. 

 Trimerous : with the parts in threes. 

 Tricuspid ATE : with 3 cusps, 3-pointed. 

 Trifid: 3-cleft. 



Trifoliolate : with 3 leaflets, as the leaves of Trefoil. 

 Triple-ribbed, or nerved : having a mid-rib divided into S branches 



near the base of the blade of the leaf. 

 Triternate : three times ternate. 

 Truncate : as if cut oflf at the top. 

 Tryma : a sort of dryish drupe, 2-coated, the epicarp fibro-fleshy or 



woody, and the nucleus bony. Such fruits are the Hickory and 



Butternut. 

 Tuber : a thickened portion of an underground stem or branch, fur- 

 nished with buds (eyes). 

 Tubercle : a small excrescence, or wart-like protuberance. 

 Tubercled : with a tubercle. 

 Tubular : hollow and of an elongated shape. 

 Tumid: swollen. 

 Umbel : an umbrella-like sort of centripetal inflorescence, in which 



the pedicels resemble the rays of an -umbrella, springing all frcm 



one point. 



