2/2 AMERICAN VINES. 



GLOSSARY OF PRINCIPAL SCIENTIFIC 

 TERMS USED IN PRESENT 

 VOLUME* 



ABNORMAL Contrary to the general rule. 



ABORTIVE An organ or flower is said to be abortive when its develop- 

 ment has been arrested at a very early stage. 



ACUMINATE, leaf (Bot.) Ending in sharp point. 



ADAPTABILITY The quality of being capable of adaptation. 



ADAPTATION When speaking of a plant, that act or process of adapt- 



. .<- --ing itself to certain conditions of the surroundings. 



ALLUVIAL (Geol.) Composed of alluvium; relating to the deposits 

 made by flowing waters, washed away from one place and de- 

 posited in another as alluvial soil. 



ALPINE DILUVIUM (Geol.) A deposit of superficial loam, sand, gravel, 

 stone, etc., caused by former action of flowing waters, or the 

 melting of glacial ice in the Alp ranges, south of France. 



AMPELOPSIS -(Bot.) A family of plants closely related to Vitis, com- 

 monly called Virginian creepers. 



ANALOGOUS See Analogy. 



ANALOGY That resemblance of structure which depends upon simi- 

 larity of relations. Such structures are said to be analogous or 

 analogues to each other. 



ANASTOMOSIS Intercommunication between two or more vessels. 



ANTHERS (Bot.) The summits of the stamens of flowers in which the 

 pollen or fertilizing dust is produced. 



APEX (Bot.) The tip, top, point, or summit of a leaf or stem. 



ARANEOUS (Bot.) Cobweblike; extremely thin and delicate down on 

 vine leaves. 



ATAVISM See Reversion. 



ATROPINE A white crystallizable poison, extracted from different 

 plants, remarkable for its power of dilating the pupil of the eye. 



AUTOFECUNDATION Self-impregnation. 



BATHONIAN Applied to rocks belonging to a certain division of the 

 Jurassic age. The term refers to the age of the rocks alone, and 

 not to their character or composition. 



BIFURCATION A forking or division into two branches 



BINARY HYBRID Hybrid resulting from the crossing of two c6pages 

 only. 



BLOOM When speaking of fruit, the delicate, powdery external coat- 

 ing, as on grapes. 



CALCAREOUS Partaking of the nature of limestone. 



CALYX The outer covering of a flower. 



CAMBIUM (Bot.) A series of formative cells lying outside the wood 

 proper and inside of the inner bark; the growth of the new wood 

 takes place in the Cambium, which is very soft. 



*This Glossarv has been given because several viticulturists have complained thai some 

 of the terms used in previous publications were unintelligible to them (Trans.) 



