Glossary 



Achene A dry one-seeded fruit 



Acrid Sharp, sour, unpleasant to the 

 taste 



Acuminate Tapering into a long 

 point 



Acute Sharp-pointed 



Adherent More or less grown to- 

 gether 



Adnate Grown together 



Aerial Growing in the air 



Aggregate Grouped together 



Alternate With a single leaf at each 

 point of attachment 



Anatropous Turned back or down- 

 ward 



Annual Lasting only one growing 

 season 



Anther The upper part of the sta- 

 men containing the pollen 



Apetalous Without petals 



Apex Tip or upper end 



Apocarpous Having or consisting 

 of separate carpels or pistils 



Apopetalous Having or consisting 

 of separate petals 



Appendaged With an addition or 

 projection 



Appressed Lying close to or against 

 another part 



Aquatic Growing in the water 



Aril The fleshy often bright-colored 

 outer coat of some seeds 



Arilled With a fleshy outer coat 



Aromatic Spicy, fragrant 



Ascending Growing obliquely up- 

 ward 



Astringent Drawing together, hence 

 puckering 



Auricle An appendage more or less 

 ear-like in shape 



Awl-shaped More or less spine-like 



Awn A slender bristle-like structure 



Awn-pointed Tipped with an awn 



Axil The angle between leaf and 

 stem 



Axillary Borne in the axil of a leaf 



Axis The part of a stem or branch 

 which bears leaves, flowers, or flow- 

 er parts 



Barbed Curved like a fish-hook 



Basal At the base or arising from it 



Beak An elongated tapering struc- 

 ture 



Beaked Bearing a beak 



Bearded With hairs restricted more 

 or less to a definite area 



Berry A fleshy fruit with a thin skin 

 or soft rind, the seeds embedded in 

 pulp 



Bifoliate Consisting of two leaflets 



Bipinnate With two sets of leaflets, 

 primary and secondary 



Bipinnatifid Pinnately lobed, with 

 the lobes again divided 



Biternate With three divisions, each 

 subdivided into three leaflets 



Blade The flat part of a leaf 



Boreal Northern 



Boss A raised knob or disk 



Bract The leaf found below a flow- 

 er or flower cluster 



Bracteole, bractlet A small leaf or 

 scale on the pedicel below the flow- 

 er 



Bulb A short stem with fleshy scales, 

 usually below ground 



Bulblet A small bulb, often above 

 ground 



Bulbous Like a bulb; bearing bulbs 



Calcareous Containing much lime 

 Calyx The cup- or saucer-shaped 



outer part of the flower, usually 



green 

 Campanulate Bell-shaped 

 Cane The elongated new shoot of 



bushes and shrubs 

 Canescent Gray and hoary 

 Capitate Head-like 

 Capsule A dry fruit consisting of 



two or more carpels or pistils 



