GLOSSARY OF TERMS. 



ABRUPT, with the extremity cut off, as it were, by a transverse line, 

 f. 5, 54. 



Abruptly pinnate, without a terminal leaflet or tendril, f. 79. 



Acute, ending in a point, f. 57. 



Acuminate, taper-pointed, f. 58. 



Aggregate flowers, when several flowers, generally stalked, and with se- 

 parated anthers, are enclosed in a common calyx. 



Alternate, coming off one by one, in different directions, f. 22. 



Alternately pinnate, with alternate leaflets, f. 80. 



Anther, a bag containing pollen, f. 133. 



Apple, a fleshy fruit, containing a capsule, f. 143. 



Articulated stem or leaf, formed into distinct parts, united by portions of 

 smaller diameter. 



Arrow-shaped, triangular, hollowed at the base, f. 45. 



Ascending, having an oblique direction upwards. 



Awl-shaped, long, cylindrical at the base, and tapering to a point, f. 72. 



Awn, an elongated stiff acute body upon the flowers of grasses, f. 96. 



Axillar, growing between a leaf and the stem or branch, or between 

 branch and the stem. 



Barbed or Bearded, having a tuft of long hairs. 



Barren flowers, having stamens but not pistils, and therefore not pro- 

 ducing fruit. 



Bell-shaped, of the form of a bell, with the margin turned outwards, 

 f. 120. 



Berry, a juicy fruit containing seeds imbedded in its pulp, f. 144. 



Bigeminate, twice paired, f. 81. 



Binate leaf, when two leaflets rest upon a common stalk, f. 74. 



Bipinnate, twice pinnate, f. 83. 



Biternate, twice ternate, f. 82. 



Bractea, a leafy appendage to the flower, or its stalk, f. 85, a. f. 86, a. 



Branches, divisions of the stem. 



Bristly, covered with short stiff hairs. 



Bristle-pointed, terminated by a bristle, or bristly point, f. 59. 



Bristle-shaped, long, cylindrical at the base, tapering and very slender. 



Bristles, short stiif hairs. 



Border, the expanded part of the petal, f. 125, b. 



Bulbous-root, with an enlarged globular part, and numerous fibres, 

 f. 6, 7, 8. 



Bundle, flower-stalks of equal length, growing close together, f. 100. 



Caducous calyx, falling off before the corolla. 



Callous, thickened and stiff. 



Calyx, the outer, generally green covering of a flower, f. 109, b. 



Capsule, a dry seed-vessel, generally of a membranous texture, f. 137. 



Cartilaginous, thick and tough. 



Catkin, a long simple flower-stalk thickly covered with scales and 



flowers, f. 105. 



Cauline, growing on the stem, f. 23, 24. 

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