GLOSSARY 



OP THB 



PRINCIPAL BOTANICAL TERMS USED IN THIS WORK. 



reader will bear in mind, that where compound descriptive terms are 

 employed in this work, the last member of the compound word is intended to 

 express the predominant character of the object, and that the word, or syllable 

 prefixed, merely indicates a modification of that character: as, for example, 

 "ovate-lanceolate" signifies lanceolate, but inclining somewhat to ovate; while 

 "lance-ovate" means ovate, with something of the lanceolate form, &c. So of colors: 

 "yellowish-green," "bluish -green," Ac. signify that green is the prevailing hue ; 

 but that it is tinged with a shade of yellow, blue, Ac. 



Terms indicative of the size of any organ, or portion of a plant, without giving 

 the exact dimensions, such as "large," "small," or "middle-sized," are, of 

 course, relative ; and have reference to the usual or average size of such parts, or 

 organs, in other species of the same genus, or family. 



N. B. To enable the <reader to distinguish, at a glance, our native plants from 

 the foreign, the names of those which are indigenous to the County are 

 printed in full face type; while those of the naturalized, are in italics, and 



Of the CULTIVATED, in SMALL CAPITALS. 



different from the regular or Acumination 



A ; privative, in composition ; as apetal- 



ous, destitute of petals, &c. 

 Abnormal; differe 



usual structure 

 Abortion ; an imperfect development, or 



product. 



Abortive ; not arriving at perfection ; pro- 

 ducing no fruit. 

 Abrupt ; not gradual ; sudden. 

 Abruptly acuminate ; suddenly narrowed 



to a tapering point. 

 Abruptly pinnate ; see Even-pinnate. 

 Acaulescent ; apparently stemless. 

 Accessory ; additional, or supernumerary 

 Accumbent cotyledons; having their edges 



applied to the radicle (expressed by this 



sign, o=), as in some of the Oruci- 



ferae. 



Acerose; needle-shaped. 

 Achenium; see Alcent. 

 Acicular; needle-like, or bristle-like. 

 Acotyledonous ; destitute of cotyledons. 

 Acrocarpi; bearing the fruit at apex (a 

 division of the Mosses). 

 Acrogenous; growing only at the apex, 



or summit of the stem. 

 Acrogens; apex-growers, or acrogenous 



plants. 

 Aculeate; prickly; armed with prickles. 



Acuminate; ending in a produced or ex 



tended tapering point. 



umination; an extended tapering point. 

 Acute; sharp; not rounded; ending in an, 



angle, or point, without much tapering. 

 Adherent ; attached or growing to another 



different organ, as the calyx-tube to 



the ovary, &c. See Coherent. 

 Adnate ; adhering laterally ; fixed or 



growing to. 

 Adventitious; happening irregularly; not 



produced usually. 

 Aerial; in the air; situated, or growing 



above ground. 

 Aestivation; the mode in which sepals 



and petals are arranged in the bud, 



before they expand. 

 Aggregated ; crowded together. 

 Akene (or Achenium); a 1-seeded fruit, 



with a dry indehiscent pericarp, often 



bony, or nut-like. 

 Alate ; winged; having a membranous 



border. 

 Albumen ; a deposit of nutritive matter, 



distinct from the embryo, found in 



many seeds, and sometimes (as in the 



Grasses) constituting their chief bulk. 

 Albuminous seeds ; furnished with, or 



containing albumen. 



