Trees, Shrubs and Vines 



Double flowers : with additional petals, by transformation of 

 stamens. 



Elliptical: long-oval. 



Emarginate : slightly notched at apex. 



Entire : a leaf-edge unbroken by teeth or lobes, Fig. 8, a. 



Even-pinnate : with an even number of leaflets. 



Evergreen: retaining foliage over winter; distinctively applied to 

 the type of foliage in cone-bearing plants. 



Exserted: when stamens protrude above the top of the corolla- 

 tube. 



Fascicled: densely clustered, and radiating from one point, as 



leaves in the larch. 

 Filament: thread-like stem of anther, Fig. I2, a. 



Habitat: area of natural growth. 



Halberd-shaped : tapering, with abrupt lobes projecting at base, 



Fig. 5, h. 

 Head : a globular mass of flowers, Fig. 19. 

 Heart-shaped : referring especially to rounded indentation at base 



of leaf, Fig. 6, f. 



Involucre : cluster of bracts at base of a flower-cluster. 



Keeled : sharply ridged along the middle. 



Leaflets : the leaf-like subdivisions of a compound leaf, Figs. 2, 3. 

 Lobed : leaf-edge deeply cut. Fig. 8, d. 



Midrib : central vein in a leaf. 



Monopetalous : with all the petals more or less united, Fig. Ii. 



Mucronate : abruptly tipped with a short point. 



Obovate: reverse ovate, broad end at top. 



Odd-pinnate : with an odd number of leaflets. 



Opposite: with leaves on exactly opposite sides of stem. Fig. 4, b. 



Oval : somewhat flattened circle. 



Ovoid : applied to fruit when oval or ovate. 



Palmate leaf : with all its leaflets radiating from same point, 

 Fig. 3. 



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