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DIAPHORETICS. 'Those sccernaiit stimulants which promote perspir- 

 ation more particularly. 

 DICHOTOMOUS. Forked. Stem, &c. parted in pairs, each branch 



parted in pairs again, and so on. When it is parted but once it ia 



more properly called forked. 



DIHYNAMOUS. Belonging" to, or varying into the class didvnamia. 

 DIFFUSED. Spreading. Expanded in an open loose manner. 

 DIGITATE Fingered. When the base of several leafets rest on the 



end of one petiole ; as the strawberry and fivefinger. 

 DILATED. Expanded, widened. 



DIOECIOUS. Belonging to, or varying into the class diacia. 

 DISCOID. Having a disk without rays. 

 DISK. The whole surface of a leaf, or of the top of a compound flou'- 



er, as opposed to its edge or periphery. This term is also applied 



to the aggregate florets of an umbel. 

 DiS8iLtE>s. A pericarp is dissihent, when it burs' s open with a spring, 



as the touch-me-not, (impntiens ) 

 DIUIIKTICS. Those secernant stimulants which increase urine more 



particularly 

 DIVARICATE. Branches spreading out from the stem so far. as to form 



more than a right an^le with it above. 

 DIVERGING. Branches spreading out from the stem so far as to form 



almost a right angle \\ith it. 

 DORSAL. Fixed to the back. Awns are d<-rsal, when proceeding 



from the outside of a glume and not from the tip. 

 DOWJT OR BOWST, 17. DRUPE, 1 U 2. 



DRUPACEOUS, Bearing drupes, or fruit resembling them. 

 EARED. This term applies ; 1st to ihe round extended, or ^ppendaged 



lobes of a heart-form leaf: 2d, to he sid lobes near the base of ome 



leaves : and 3d, to twisted parts, in some ferns and some liverworts, 



which are supposed to resemble the .conchus, or passage into the eajr. 

 ECHINATE. Hedge-hog-like. Beset with erect prickles. 

 EGGJOHM. See ovate. 

 EGRET. See aigrette, 

 ELASTIC. See dissiliena. 

 ELIPTK-, t.onger than wide, rounded at or near both ends, and near- 



ly equal in breadth towards both base and apex. 

 ELONGATED. Lengthened out, as if extended beyond what is usual 



in similar parts. 

 EMARGINATK, 17. 



EMETICS. Substances which excite vomiting. 

 EMOLLIENTS. Substances which soften tumors or any hardness or 



dryness of the skin. 

 ENSIFOR*. Swcrd-form. Two-edged, tapering from base to apex 



mostly, and a little arching towar.ib one ecke ; as flag and cut-JaiJ, 



(Iris and Typha.) 

 ENTIRE. Coiuimied without interruption. A margin of a Isaf, calyx, 



corol, Soc. is antire, when it is neither seriate, toothed, notched, 



nor in any manner indented. 



Similar parts equjil among themselves. The calyx, ccrol, &c. 



