GLOSSARY OF TECHNICAL TERMS USED 

 IN THIS WORK 



Achene, a dry, non-bursting, one-seeded 



fruit. 

 Achlamydeous, flowers without sepals 



or petals. 

 Actinomorphic, when regular flowers 



can be cut into two equal halves in 



more than one plane. 

 Acuminate, taper-pointed. 

 Adnate, one organ united to another. 

 Alternate, when leaves are arranged 



on a stem one after another. 

 Ample xicaul, stem-clasping. 

 Andrcecium, the stamens (or male 



organs) of a flower. 

 Angiosperms, flowering - plants with 



ovules enclosed in an ovary. 

 Anther, the sac-like part of the stamen 



containing the pollen essential for 



fertilisation. 

 Apocarpous, when several pistils or 



carpels in the same flower are separate. 

 Auricled, with leaf-like appendages, as 



in Cyclamen. 

 Bipartite, when leaves are divided into 



two parts nearly to the base. 

 Bipinnate, when the pinnae or divisions 



of a pinnate leaf are themselves again 



pinnate. 

 Biter nate, when the divisions of a 



ternate leaf are themselves ternate. 

 Bracteate, furnished with bracts. 

 Bracts, small leaves at the base of the 



pedicels. 

 Bulb. See p. 1, and Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 



20-22. 

 Calyx, the outer and usually greenish 



whorl of leaf-like organs (sepals) out- 

 side the corolla (petals). 

 Carpel, another name for the pistil 



which see. 



Cladodes, leaf-like bodies, as in 

 Asparagus. 



Connate, when two similar bodies are 

 slightly united at the base. 



Convolute, when one part is rolled up 

 within another lengthwise. 



Corolla, the more or less highly- 

 coloured whorl of floral leaves (petals) 

 between the calyx and stamens. 



Corm. See p. 1, and Figs. 5, 6, 13, 16, 

 17, 18, 19, 53. 



Corona, the central conspicuous growth 

 in Narcissi flowers. 



Corymb, a raceme having flowers at 

 one level owing to the lower ones 

 having longer stalks than the upper 

 ones. 



Crenate, when the teeth on the margins 

 of leaves are rounded. 



Cuneate, wedge-shaped. 



Cyme, an inflorescence formed of a 

 terminal flower beneath which are 

 two opposite side-shoots, each ending 

 in a blossom and again having side- 

 shoots. 



Diadelphous, when stamens are in two 

 distinct bundles. 



Dichlamydeous, flowers having both 

 sepals and petals. 



Dichotomous, forked in pairs. 



Dicotyledons, with two seed-leaves. See 

 p. 43. 



Didynamous, having two long and two 

 short stamens. 



Dioecious, when the stamens are on one 

 plant and the pistils or carpels on 

 another. 



Distichous, arranged in two opposite 

 rows. 



Ensiform, sword-shaped. 



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