194 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 



Adelphous (stamens), joined in a fraternity (adelphia); see monadelphous, &c. 



Aden, Greek for gland. So Adenophorous, gland-bearing. 



Adherent, sticking to, or more commonly, growing fast to another body. 



Adnate, literally, growing fast to, born adherent, 95. The anther is adnate when 



fixed by its whole length to the filament or its prolongation, 101. 

 Adnation, the state of being adnate, 94. 



Adpressed or appressed, brought into contact with, but not united. 

 Adscendent, ascendent, or ascending, rising gradually upwards, 39. 

 Adsurgent, or assurgent, same as ascending, 39. 



Adventitious, out of the proper or usual place; e. g. Adventitious buds, 30. 

 Adventive, applied to foreign plants accidentally or sparingly introduced into a 



country, but hardly to be called naturalized. 

 ^Equilateral, equal-sided ; opposed to oblique. 

 Aerial roots, &c, 36. 

 jEruginous, verdigris-colored. 

 yEstival, produced in summer. 



^Estivation, the arrangement of parts in a flower-bud, 97. 

 Agamous, sexless. 

 Aggregate fruits, 118. 

 Agrestis, growing in fields. 



Air-cells or Air-passages, spaces in the tissue of leaves and some stems, 131 

 Air-Plants, 36. 

 Akene or Akenium, 120. 



Ala (plural, ul<e), a wing; the side-petals of a papilionaceous corolla, 92. 

 Alabastrum, a flower-bud. 

 A lar, situated in the forks of a stem. 

 A late, winged. 



Albescent, whitish, or turning white. 

 Albus, Latin for white. 



Albumen of the seed, nourishing matter stored up with the embryo, 21, 127. 

 Albumen, a vegetable product, of four elements. 

 Albuminous (seeds), furnished with albumen, 21. 

 Alburnum, young wood, sap-wood, 142. 

 Alliaceous, with odor of garlic. 

 A llogamous, close fertilization. 

 Alpestrine, subalpine. 



Alpine, belonging to high mountains above the limit of forests. 

 Alternate (leaves), one after another, 29, 67. Petals are alternate with the 



sepals, or stamens with the petals, when they stand over the intervals between 



them, 82. 

 Alveolate, honeycomb-like. 



Ament, the scaly spike of trees like the Birch and Willow, 75. 

 Amentaceous, catkin-like, or catkin-bearing. 

 Amorphous, shapeless, without any definite form. 

 Amphicarpous, producing two kinds of fruit. 



Amphigastrium (plural, amphigastria), a peculiar stipule-like leaf of Liverworto. 

 Amphitropous, ovules or seeds, 111. 

 Amphora, a pitcher-shaped organ. 



Amplectant, embracing. Amplexicaul (leaves), clasping the stem by the base. 

 Ampullaceous, swelling out like a bottle or bladder (ampulla). 

 Amylaceous, Amyloid, composed of starch (amylum), or starch-like. 

 Anandrous, without stamens. 



Anantherous, without anthers. Ananthous, destitute of flowers ; flowerless. 

 Anastomosing, forming a net-work (anastomosis), as the veins of leaves, 50- 

 Anatropous ovules or seeds, 111. 

 Ancipital (anceps), two-edged. 

 AndrcBcium, a name for the stamens taken together, 98. 



