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ASTRINGENTS. Substances which condense the fibres, and consolidate 

 relaxed parts. They brace up debilitated intestines, and applied 

 externally restrain bleeding- wounds, &c. 



Aucrus CALYX. Having an outer row of leafets ; as the Dandelion. 



AWL-FORM, 16. 



AWL-POINTED. Acuminate. 



AWN. A short slender process, or stiff beard, proceeding- from the 

 top or back of glumes, or chaff. 



AXIL. The arm-pit. Applied to vegetables, it means the angle form- 

 ed by the meeting of a leaf or petiole wiih the stem, or of a branch 

 with the main stem. 



AXILLARY. Any thing growing from the axils. 



BANNER. The upper petal in a papilionaceous flower. 



BARK, 14. 



BASIS. Base. The part of a s< em, leaf, flower, &c. nearest to the 

 place through which it derives its nutriment. 



BEAKED. Terminated by a process, formed like a bird's bill. 



BELL-FORM, 10. BERRY, 12. 



BIENNIAL. Springing up one summer, flowering- and dying the next, 

 as wheat. 



BlPINNATE, 18. 



BIPINNATIFID. Doubly pinnatifid. When the divisions of apinnatifid 

 leaf are cut in, or pinnatifid again, 



BlTERNATE, 17. 



BOAT-FOHM. Hollow one side with a compressed longitudinal ridge 

 on the opposite side. 



BORDER in LICHENS. The edging of their receptacles (apothecium.) 

 It is proper, when of the same substance and colour of the recepta- 

 cle. It is accessory, when of a different substance or colour from 

 the disk of the receptacle. 



BRACT, 18. BRANCHING, 14. 



BRISTLE -FORM. Nearly opposite to a bristle in length and breadth. 



BRISTLY, 17. BULBOUS ROOT, 14. 



BUTTONS, Tricce. That kind of receptacle of lichens which when 

 magnified resembles a coiled horsehair. They are roundish, -es-ile t 

 unexpanding, compact, black and solid ; continued along their whole 

 Surface. Upper side they are in concentric, or coiled, plaited and 

 twisted folds ; covered every where with the same membrane ; 

 containing seeds without cells, or cases. Smith. 



CADUCOUS. Any part of a plant is caducous* which falls off earlier, 

 compared with other parts of the same plant, than is usual f T sim- 

 ilar parts in most plants. As the calyx of the poppy tails off before 

 the corol is hardly expanded. 



CAHSPITOSE. Turfy. Several plants growing together, or from the 

 same root, forming a turf. 



CALYCLED. See aucius. 



CALYPTRA, 10. CALYX, 9. CAMS, 14. 



CAPILLARY, Hair tbrm ; longer than bristle-form, in proportion to it* 

 thickness. 



CAPITATE. Head-form 5 growing in heads, 

 12. 



