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Dorsal. Relating to the dorsum or back. 

 Drupe. A fleshy or pulpy fruit with the seed inclosed in 

 a hard or stony casing. 



Ebracteate. Without bracts. 

 Echinate. Beset with hooked prickles. 

 Elater. Coiled elastic thread. 

 Emarginate. Notched at the extremity. 

 Endosperm. Layer of substance in the seed usually 

 enveloping the germ. 

 Enneandria. Nine stamens. 

 Epicarp. Outer layer of the pericarp. 

 Epigynce. Above the ovary. 

 Equitant. Astride, as in leaves of Iris. 

 Exocarp. The outer portion of a pericarp. 

 Exserted. Projecting beyond an envelope. 

 Extrorse. Directed outward. 



Fascicle. A close bundle or cluster. 



Filament. The part of the stamen which supports the 

 anther. 



Filiform. Thread-shaped. 



Fimbriate. Fringed with narrow cuttings. 



Floret. A small flower; one of a head. 



Foliate. Having leaves, leafy. 



Foliolate. Having leaflets or small leaves. 



Follicle. A pod formed from a simple pistil dehiscing 

 only along the ventral suture. 



Foveolate. Marked by minute pits. 



Frond. The leaf of ferns, liverworts or of Lemna. 



Frustranea. Florets of the disk hermahprodite, of the 

 ray neutral. 



Frutescent. Shrnbby. 



Funicle. The stalk of an ovule or seed. 



Furfuraceous. Scurfy. 



Oalbulus. An indehiscent cone, becoming berry-like. 

 Qakate. Formed like a helmet. 

 Qamopetalce. Petals more or less united. 



