432 GLOSSARY. 



32. Ligneous. Woody. 



33. Lobe. A large division of a leaf 



34. Serves. Parallel veins. 



35. Obovate. Egg-shaped, with the smallest end towards the stalk. 



36. Oral acuminate. Round at one end, pointed at the other. 



37. Ovate. Egg-shaped. 



38. Palmated. In the form of a hand with the fingers spread. 



39. Panicle. A loose, irregular flower, subdivided into branches. 



40. Peduncle. The stem, which supports the flower and fruit. 



41. Pericarp. See Capsule. 



42. Petal. The leaf of which flowers are composed. 



43. Petiole. The footstalk, which supports the leaf. 



44. Pinnate. Having two rows of leaflets arranged on a common 



petiole. 



45. Pollen. The dust contained in the anthers. 



46. Pome. A pulpy fruit containing a pericarp or capsule. 



Hairy, 

 48. Raceme. Long clusters. 



47. Pubescent. Hairy, or downy. 



49. Reniform. Oblong, oval, or lengthened. 



50. Rugose. Wrinkled. 



51. Serrate. Notched in a manner resembling the teeth of a saw. 



52. Serrulate, or Crenate. Minutely serrate. 



53. Sessile. Attached to the stem without footstalks. 



54. Species. The last or lowest division. 



55. Spine. A. thorn growing from the wood. Prickles grow freely 



from the bark. 



56. Stamen. The outer circle of the slender filaments which rise 



around the centre of a blossom or flower. 



57. Stigma. The summit of the pistil. 



58. Stipule. Leafy appendages at the base of the leaves or petioles. 



59. Suture. A groove, or channel. 



60. Tendrils. The twining appendages of vines, by which they 



attach themselves to supporters. 



61. Truncated. Having a square termination. 



62. Umbel. Flowers having a convex summit, with numerous 



flower-stalks of equal length diverging from a common 

 centre. 



63. Variety. A subdivision of a species, or the lowest division. 



