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Australian Grasses. 



Cordate ... Heart shaped. 



Coriaceous ... Tough, leathery, firm. 



Crinite ... Covered with long weak hairs. 



Culm ... ... The stalk or stem of a grass. 



Cuneate ... Wedge shaped. 



Cuspidate ... Ending in a sharp, stiff point. 



Cylindrical . . . Having a tubelike body of uniform diameter. 



Decompound ... Having various compound divisions. 



Decumbent ... Reclining upon the earth, and rising again from it. 



Denticulate ... Having- very fine marginal teeth. 



Diandrous ... Two stamened. 



Dichotomous ... Having the divisions always in pairs. 



Diffuse ... Spreading widely. 



Digitate ... Having several distinct spikes radiating from the point of 



a stalk. 



Dioecious ... Having the sexes borne in different flowers by distinct 



individuals, as in Spinifex. 



Distichous ... Arranged in two rows. 



Divaricate ... Straggling, spreading abruptly. 



Dorsal... ... Belonging to the back. 



Echinate ... Furnished with numerous rigid hairs, or straight prickles. 



Effuse ... Spreading widely. 



Emarginate . . . Having a notch at the end, as if a piece had been taken 



out. 



Exserted . . . Extended beyond standing out. 



Palcate ... Curved like the blade of a reaper's sickle. 



Fertile ... Having the power o producing perfect seeds. 



Filament . . . Any kind of thread-like body. 



Filiform ... Thread-like. 



Fimbriate ... Fringed. 



Flaccid ... Bending without elasticity. 



Flavescens ... A pure pale yellow. 



Flexuose ... Bending freely. 



Floret ... ... Sometimes used to designate the flowers of grasses. 



Fluitans ... Floating upon the surface of water. 



Frondose ... Bearing a number of leaves. 



Fulvous ... Dull yellow, with a mixture of gray and brown. 



Furrowed ... Marked by longitudinal channels. 



Geminate ... Growing in pairs. 



Geniculate . . . Bent abruptly, like a knee. 



Gibbous ... More convex in one place than another. 



Glabrous ... Smooth, having no hairs. 



Glaucous ... Pale bluish green. 



Glomerate ... Clustered in roundish heads. 



Glumes ... The outer series of scales which constitute the flower of 

 a grass. 



Hermaphrodite . Containing both stamens and pistil. 



Hirsute ... Set with thick long hairs. 



Hispid ... Covered with stiff hairs. 



Hyaline ... Transparent, or nearly so. 



Imbricate ... Overlapping like the tiles of a roof. 



Inflorescence ... The arrangement of flowers. 



Inserted ... Growing out of. 



Internode ... The space which intervenes between the nodes. 



