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GLOSSARY. 



Acerose (-6sus). Needle-shaped, like the 

 leaves of Pines. 



Acetdbuliform (-ormis). In the form of 

 a shallow open cup or saucer. 



Ach(enium or Achenium. A small, dry 

 and hard, one-celled, one-seeded, inde- 

 hiscent fruit ; strictly one of a single 

 and free carpel; but extended to simi- 

 lar ones of more than one carpel, and 

 also with adnate calyx; 294. (Achce- 

 niiuii is etymologically the proper 

 orthography ; but achenium is be- 

 coming the commoner form.) 



Acheenocarp (-arpium). General name 

 of a dry and indehiscent fruit ; 292. 



Achenodium. Such a double achenium 

 as that of Umbelliferae ; a Cremo- 

 carp. 



Achlamydeous (-eus). Destitute of peri- 

 anth; 191. 



Acicula. A bristle. 



Acicular (-am). Bristle-shaped, or slen- 

 der needle-shaped. 



Acindciform (-ormis). Scymitar-shaped ; 

 curved with rounded point, thicker on 

 the straighter edge than on the con- 

 vex edge. 



Adnosus. Like grapes or grape-seed. 



Acinus. Classically a berry, particu- 

 larly a grape, or its stony seed, or a 

 bunch of berries ; now sometimes ap- 

 plied to the separate carpels of an 

 aggregate baccate fruit, or to the con- 

 tained stone or seed ; 297. 



Acorn. Fruit of the Oak. 



Aci>tyledon,p\. Acotyledons, Acotyledones. 

 A plant or plants destitute of coty- 

 ledon, or 



Acotyledonous (-eus). Without cotyle- 

 dons ; as the embryo of Cuscuta ; 26, 

 38. Mostly applied, as by Jussieu, 

 to plants which have no proper seed 

 nor embryo, and therefore no cotyle- 

 don ; 339. 



Acrampkibrya. Plants producing side as 

 well as terminal buds or growths ; 341 



Acrdbrya. Plants growing from apex 

 ^only; 341. 



Acroyen (Acrdgence). Name of class of 

 plants which in growth are said to be 



Acroyenous. Growing from the apex 

 or by terminal buds only. 



Acrosdrcum. Desvaux's name for a 

 berry from an ovary with adnate 

 calyx. 



Acroapira. An old name of the plu- 

 mule of a grain in germination. 



Aculeate (-eatus). Prickly; beset with 

 aculei. 



Aculeosus. Abounding with prickles. 



Aculeolate (-atus). Beset with diminu- 

 tive prickles, or 



Aculeoli. Diminutive of aculei. 



Aculeus. A prickle ; a pointed small 

 excrescence of the bark. 



Acumen. A tapering point. 



Acuminate (-atus). Ending in a tapering 

 point; 96. 



Acute (Acutus). Terminating in an acute 

 angle; 97. 



Acropetal. Developing from below up- 

 ' ward, or from base toward apex. 



Actinomorphous (-us). Capable of bi- 

 section through two or more planes 

 into similar halves, as is a regular 

 symmetrical flower; 175. 



Acutiusculus. Somewhat acute ; acutish. 



Adelphous (-us, Adelphi, brothers). Sta- 

 mens with coalescent or clustered fila- 

 ments are monadelphous, diadelphous, 

 &c., according to the number of Adel- 

 phia or brotherhoods. 



Aden. Greek for gland, is compounded 

 with Greek words with this meaning ; 

 as, Adendphorus, gland-bearing; Ad- 

 enophyllus, leaves bearing glands, &c. 



Adylutinate (-atus). Same as accrete 



Adherent (Adhcerens). Generally same 

 as adnate ; may refer to adhesions not 

 congenital. 



Adnate (-atus). Congenitally united to ; 

 as the calyx-tube of the gooseberry to 

 the ovary; 182. Adnate anther is one 

 seemingly borne on the outer or inner 

 face of the filament ; i. e. extrorsely or 

 introrsely fixed by its whole length to 

 the connective ; 253. 



Adnation. The state of being adnate; 

 179, 181. 



Adpressus. Latin of appressed. 



Adscendens. Latin of ascending. 



Adsurgens. Latin of assurgent. 



Adventitious, Adventive. That which has 

 come from abroad or as a stranger ; as 

 a plant lately or by chance introduced 

 from another country. 



Adventitious Buds ; 45. 



jEquilaterdlis. Equilateral, equal-sided. 



jEqualijldrus. When all the flowers of 

 the same head or cluster are alike in 

 form as well as character. 



^fjudlix, JEqunm. Equal ; equalling. 



Aerial roots, &c. ; 33. 



Aerophytes. Air-plants; 35. 



JEruyinosus. Verdigris-colored. 



jEstival (-dlis). Relating to summer. 



^Estivation (-io). The disposition of the 

 parts of a flower in the bud ; 132. 



