Inferior 



OF BOTANICAL TERMS. 



Instipulate 



term, aud applies also to dis- 

 eases originating from germs 

 which are able to vegetate for 

 a time at least outside of the 

 affected plant or animal. In a 

 strict sense Infectious applies 

 only to diseases produced by 

 organisms which bave their 

 natural home outside of the 

 infected body. 



iNFE'RlOR, lower, as an ovary 

 to which the other floral organs 

 are adnate so that they arise 

 from its summit. If the other 

 organs are free from the ovary 

 they are inferior and the ovary 

 superior, though the term is 

 seldom applied to them. The 

 inferior side of a leaf or flower 

 is the lower or anterior side 

 which faces away from the 

 supporting axis or stem. 



INFLATED, puffed up; bladdery. 



iNFLfiCT'ED, see Inflexed. 



INFLEXED', abruptly bent in- 

 ward or downward; inflected. 



INFLORESCENCE, (l) the ar- 

 rangement of the flowers or 

 flower-clusters on a plant; an- 

 thotaxy. Compare Phyllo- 

 taxy. (2) The portion of the 

 plant which bears the flowers 

 and fruit, i.e., a flower-cluster 

 of any kind. 



InfrA-AX'IllARY, situated be- 

 low the axil. 



INFRACTED, see Inflexed. 



INFRtCTES'CENgE, an inflores- 

 cence in fruit; the fruiting 

 portion of a plant, together 

 with its fruit. Little used, 

 and applied mainly to col- 

 lective fruits. 



INFu-NDIB'tiLAR, see Infundib- 



ULIFORM. 



iNFUNDIB'tLIFORM, funnel- 

 shaped; having a tube which 

 gradually enlarges upward and 

 bears a moderately spreading 



border, as Datura. Compare 

 Hypocrateriform. 



InI'TIAL CELLS, the first formed 

 cells of a tissue. 



INJECTION, filling of inter- 

 cellular spaces by water, an 

 occurrence which rarely hap- 

 pens. 



INNATE', (l) said of anthers at- 

 tached by their base to the 

 apex of the filament; such 

 anthers are sometimes called 

 Vertical ; (2) said of an organ 

 or object which grows within 

 the substratum, as "mycelium 

 or perithecia innate," i.e., 

 growing within the tissue of 

 the host. 



IN'NER LAM'lNA, the layer of a 

 liguified cell-wall adjoining the 

 inside of the cell. Compare 

 Middle Lamina. 



INNOVATION, a new or addi- 

 tional growth or shoot, as the 

 supplementary extensions of 

 the stem in mosses. Applied 

 also to an entire group of off- 

 growths of the same morpho- 

 logical value if some of the 

 forms are true innovations in 

 their manner of growth; thus 

 Dr. William Trelease applies 

 this term in Epilobium to 

 forms which vary in differ- 

 ent species from sessile buds 

 to dense rosettes, running leafy 

 shoots, scaly rhizomes, and 

 filiform bulbiferous stolons. 



iNdS'CULATlNG, opening into 

 each other; anastomosing. 



INSERT'ED, attached to or grow- 

 ing out of, as stamens inserted 

 on the corolla. 



INSER'TION, the place or mode 

 of attachment. 



INSPIS'SATED, thickened by 

 drying. 



INSTlP'O-LATE, see Exstipu- 



LATE. 



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