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KEY AND FLORA 



Dissected, deeply divided or cut 



into many segments. 

 Drupe, a stone fruit such as a peach 



or a plum. 



Equitant, leaves astride of those 

 within them, thus appearing in a 

 cross section like the diagram, 



Even-pinnate, abruptly pinnate, 

 i.e. with no leaflet at the end. 



Fascicle, a close cluster or bundle 



of flowers, leaves, stems, or roots. 

 Fertile, capable of producing fruit ; 



fertile flowers, those which have 



pistils. 



Filiform, thread-shaped. 

 Fleshy, succulent, thick and full of 



sap. 

 Funiculus, the little stalk which 



connects a seed or ovule with the 



placenta. 



Gland : (1) a structure which secretes 

 something, as the knobs on the 

 hairs of sundew ; (2) any knob 

 or swelling. 



Glume, one of the two sterile, 

 chaffy bracts at the base of a 

 grass spikelet. 



Herbaceous, with no stem above- 

 ground which lives through the 

 winter, not woody 

 or shrubby. 



Imbricate, overlap- 

 ping, as the seg- 

 ments of some 

 perianths in the Imbricate 



bud. At least one segment must 

 be wholly outside and one wholly 

 inside. 



Indefinite, too many to be easily 

 counted. 



Indehiscent, not splitting open reg- 

 ularly. 



Introduced, term applied to plants 

 purposely brought into a region 

 by man. 



Involucrate, provided with an in- 

 volucre. 



Keel, the two anterior and united 

 petals of a papilionaceous corolla. 



Key, a winged fruit like that of the 

 ash or maple. 



Limb, the border or spreading part 

 of a gamopetalous calyx or co- 

 rolla. 



Lobed, having divisions, especially 

 rounded ones. 



Lodicule, one of the very minute 

 scales immediately beneath each 

 flower in a grass spikelet. 



Naturalized, term applied to plants 

 not natives of a region but thor- 

 oughly established there in a 

 wild condition. 



Nerved, having simple or un- 

 branched veins or slender ribs. 



Ob- (in composition), signifies in- 

 versely; as, obcordate, inversely 

 heart-shaped. 



Odd-pinnate, pinnate with a sin- 

 gle leaflet at the end of the 

 midrib. 



