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GLOSSARY OR DICTIONARY OF BOTANICAL TERMS. 



Berry, a fruit pulpy or juicy throughout, 

 Fig. 79, p. 40. 



Bicarinate, two-keeled. 



Bidentate, with two teeth. 



Biennial, a plant which germinates from 

 the seed one season and produces flowers 

 and fruit and dies the next, p. 9. 



Bifid, two-cleft. 



Bifoliate, with two leaflets. 



Bilabiate, two-lipped. 



Bilocular, two-celled. 



Bipartite, two-parted. 



Bipinnate, twice pinnate, Fig. 31, p. 21. 



Biserrate, doubly serrate, as when the teeth 

 of a serrate leaf are themselves serrate. 



Blade (or lamina), the expanded portion 

 of a leaf, p. 17. 



Bracts, the leaves of inflorescence, p. 25. 



Bractlets (or bracteoles), secondary bracts. 



Brandies (and stem), p. 9. 



Buds and leaves, p. 17. 



Bulb, a short, usually scaly and subter- 

 ranean stem, Figs. 16-18, p. 11. 



Caducous, falling off quickly, p. 31. 



Ccespitose, growing in tufts. 



Calyx, the external floral envelope, p. 31. 



Cambium layer, p. 15. 



Canaliculate, channelled. 



CanceUate, resembling lattice-work. 



Canescent, grayish-white, hoary. 



Capitate, head-like. 



Capsule (or pod), a dry seed-vessel which 



splits open in a regular manner, p. 43. 

 Carina, a keel. 

 Carinate, keeled. 

 Carpel, a simple pistil or one division of a 



compound pistil. 

 Caruncle, an excrescence at the scar of 



some seeds. 



Caryopsis, a fruit having the pericarp in- 

 corporated with the seed, p. 42. 

 Catkin (orament), Figs. 46, 47, p. 28. 

 Caudate, tailed. 

 Caulide (or radicle), the stem part of the 



embryo, p. 45. 

 Pauline, belonging to the stem, as cauline 



leaves. 

 Chlorophyll, the green coloring matter of 



plants, p. 24. 

 Cinereous, ashy-gray. 

 Circinate, rolled inward from the top. 



Class (of plants), p. 47. 



Classification of plants, p. 46. 



Claw, the narrow, stalk-like base of some 

 petals. 



Cleft, cut more than half-way to the base, 

 p. 19. 



Climbing, rising by clinging to other ob- 

 jects. Plants climb in many different 

 ways : by twining, by means of adven- 

 titious roots, by tendrils, by the petioles 

 of the leaves, etc. 



Column, the united stamens, or stamens 

 and pistils of some plants. 



Complete (flower), having calyx, corolla, 

 stamens, and pistils, p. 37. 



Compound leaf, Fig. 30, p. 20. 



Compressed, flattened on opposite sides. 



Concentric rings (of wood), Fig. 19, p. 14. 



Cone, the fruit of the Conifer, Fig. 93, 

 p. 44. 



Connate, leaves united about the stem, p. 

 23. 



Contracted, narrowed or shortened. 



Coriaceous, leathery. 



Corm, a fleshy bulb, p. 12. 



Corolla, the inner floral envelope, p. 31. 



Cortical, pertaining to the bark (cortex). 



Corymb, a sort of flat or convex flower- 

 cluster, Figs. 39, 40, p. 26. 



Cotyledons (or seed-leaves), the first leaves 

 of the embryo, Figs. 1-3, pp. 2, 45. 



Crenate, scalloped, Fig. 28, p. 19. 



Cryptogamous (or flowerless) plants, p. 45. 



Cuneate, wedge-shaped. 



Cup (or cupule), the involucre in which 

 an acorn rests, p. 42. 



Cuspidate, armed with a small cusp, or 

 tooth. 



Cyme, a sort of flat-topped flower-cluster, 

 Fig. 50, p. 29. 



i Decandrous, with ten stamens. 



| Deciduous, falling off, as leaves which fall 



in autumn, p. 22. 

 Declined, turned to one side. 

 I Decompound, several or many times com- 

 pounded or divided, p. 21. 

 ! Decnrrent (leaves), prolonged down the 



stem. 



Definite, a fixed number. 

 Dehiscent (fruits) ; opening at maturity, 

 p. 41. 



