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GLOSSARY 



Apocarpous (pistils). The carpels of a flower 

 forming separate pistils, as in a butter- 

 cup. 



Appressed. Lying close and flat. 



Arachnoid. Cobwebby; consisting of soft 

 downy fibers. 



Arboreous, Arborescent. Tree-like in size 

 or form. 



Archegonium (plural archegonia). The fe- 

 male organ in mosses and ferns. 



Arcuate. Bent or curved like a bow. 



Areolate. Marked out into little areas; 

 reticulate. 



Aril, An appendage growing at or about 

 the hilum of a seed. 



Arillate (seed). Furnished with an aril. 



Aristate. Awned, like the beard of barley. 



Aristulate, Diminutive of cristate; short- 

 awned. 



Articulated. Jointed. 



Assurgent. See adsurgent. 



Auriculate. Furnished with auricles or ear- 

 like appendages. 



Awl-shaped. Sharp-pointed from a broader 

 base. 



Awn. Bristle-like appendage. 



Awned. Furnished with an awn or long 

 bristle-shaped tip. 



Axil. The upper angle between a leaf and 

 the stem. 



Axile. Belonging to the axis, or occupy- 

 ing the axis. 



Axillary (bud, etc.). Occurring in an axil. 



Axis. The central line of any body; the 

 organ round which others are attached; 

 the root and stem. . 



Baccate. Berry-like. 



Barbed. Furnished with rigid points or 



short bristles, usually reflexed like the 



barb of a fishhook. 

 Barbellate. Finely barbed. 

 Basifixed. Attached by the base. 

 Bast. The fibrous portion of the inner 



bark. 



Beaked. Ending in a prolonged narrow tip. 

 Bearded. With long or stiff hairs of any 



sort; awns of grasses are sometimes called 



beard. 

 Berry. A fruit pulpy or juicy throughout, 



as a currant or a grape. 

 Bi-, in compounds, means two or twice. 

 Bidentate. Having two teeth. 

 Biennial. Of two years' duration, spring- 

 ing from the seed one season, flowering 



and dying the next. 

 Bifid. Two-cleft to about the middle. 

 Bifoliolate (leaf). With two leaflets. 

 Bilabiate. Two-lipped. 

 Bilocular. Two-celled. 

 Binate. Two together. 

 Bipinnate (leaf). Twice pinnate. 

 Bipinnatifid. Twice pinnatifid. 



Biserial, Biseriate. Occupying two rows, 

 one within the other. 



Biserrate. Doubly serrate, as when the 

 teeth of a leaf are themselves serrate. 



Biternate. Twice ternate (principal divi- 

 sions 3, each with 3 leaflets). 



Bladdery. Thin and inflated. 



Bract. In general, the leaves of an inflo- 

 rescence, more or less different from 

 ordinary leaves; specially, the small leaf 

 or scale in the axil of which a flower or 

 its pedicel stands. 



Bractlet. A bract on the pedicel or flower- 

 stalk. 



Bristle. A stiff, sharp hair, or any very 

 slender body of similar appearance. 



Bulb. A leaf-bud with fleshy scales, usually 

 subterranean. 



Bulbiferous. Bearing or producing bulbs. 



Bulblet. A small bulb, especially one borne 

 upon the stem. 



Bulbose, Bulbous. Bulb-like in form. 



Bullate. Appearing as if blistered or blad- 

 dery. 



Caducous. Dropping off very early, com- 

 pared with other parts. 



Caespitose, Cespitose. Growing in turf-like 

 patches or tufts. 



Calcarate. Furnished with a spur. 



Callus. A hard protuberance or callosity; 

 in the grasses the tough often hairy 

 swelling at the base or insertion of the 

 lemma or palet. 



Calyculate (flower). Furnished with an 

 outer set of bracts resembling an outer 

 calyx. 



Calyx. The outer set of floral envelopes. 



Campanulate. Bell-shaped. 



Campylotropous (ovule or seed). Curved 

 so as to bring the apex and base nearly 

 together. 



Canaliculate. Channeled, or with a deep 

 longitudinal groove. 



Cancellate. Latticed, resembling lattice- 

 work. 



Canescent. Grayish-white; hoary, usually 

 because the surface is covered with fine 

 white hairs. Incanous is whiter still. 



Capillary. Hair-like in form; as fine as 

 hair or slender bristles. 



Capitate. Shaped like a head; collected 

 into a bead or dense cluster. 



Capitellate. Diminutive of capitate. 



Capitulum. A little head. 



Capsular. Relating to or like a capsule. 



Capsule. A pod; any dry dehiscent seed- 

 vessel. 



Carinate. Keeled; furnished with a sharp 

 ridge or projection on the lower side. 



Cariopsis, Caryopsis. The one-seeded fruit 

 or grain of grasses. 



Corneous. Flesh-colored; pale red. 



