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Digitate (tinkered), where the leaflets of a compound leaf art- all borne ou the apex 

 of the petiole, 58. 



Digynous (flower), having two pistils or styles, 105. 



Dimerous, made up of two parts, or its organs in twos. 



Dimidiate, halved; as where a leaf or leaflet has only one side developed. 



Dimorphism, 117. Dimorphous, Dimorphic, of two forms, 117. 



Diacious, or Dioicous, with stamena and pi-til> on different plant-, 85. 



Dipetalous, of two petals. Diphyllous, two-leaved. DipUrous, two-winged. 



Diplo-, Greek fur double, as Diplostemonous, with two sets of stamens. 



Disciform or Dish-shaped, Bat and circular, like a disk or quoit. 



Discoidal, or Discoid, belonging to or like a disk. 



Discolor, of two different colors or hues. 



Discrete, separate, opposite of concrete. 



Disepalous, of two sepals. 



Disk, the face of any Mat body; the central part of a head of flowor-, like the Sun- 

 Mower, or Coreopsis, as opposed to the ray or margin; a Meshy expansion of the 

 receptacle of a Mower, 113. 



Dish-flowers, those of the disk in (Join posit, v. 



Dissected, cut deeply into many lobes or divisions. 



Dissepiments, the partitions of a compound ovary or a fruit, 108. 



Dissident, bursting in pieces. 



Distichous, two-ranked. 



Distinct, uncombined with each other, 95. 



Dithzcous, of two theca? or anther-cells. 



Divaricate, straddling; very widely divergent. 



Divided (leaves, &c), cut into divisions down to the base or midrib, 55. 



Dodeca, Greek for twelve: as Dodecagynous, with twelve pistils or styles, Dode- 

 candrous, with twelve stamens. 



Dodrans, span-long. 



Dolabriform, axe-shaped. 



Dorsal, pertaining to the back (dorsum) of an organ. Dorsal Suture, 106. 



Dotted Ducts, 148. 



Double Flowers, where the petals are multiplied unduly, 79. 



Downy, clothed with a coat of soft and short hairs. 



Drupaceous, like or pertaining to a drupe. 



Drupe, a stone-fruit, 120. Drupelet or Drupel, a little drupe. 



Ducts, the so-called vessels of plants, 134- 

 Dumose, bushy, or relating to bushes. 

 Duramen, the heart-wood, 142. 

 Dwarf, remarkably low in stature. 



E-, as a prefix of Latin compound words, means destitute of; as erostate, without a 



rib or midrib; exalbuminous, without albumen, &C. 

 Eared, see auriculate, 53. 



Ehracteate, destitute of bracts. Ebracteolate, destitute of hractlets. 

 Ebumeous, ivory-white. 



Echinate, armed with prickles (like a hedgehog). Echinulatc, a diminutive of it. 

 Edentate, toothless 



Effete, past bearing, &c; said of anthers which have discharged their pollen. 

 Effuse, very loosely branched and spreading. 



Eglattdulose, destitute of glands. 



Elaters, thread.- mixed with the spore- of Liverworts, 1G5. 



Ellipsoidal, approaching an elliptical figure. 



Elliptical, oval Or oblong, with the ends regularly rounded, 02. 



Emarginate, notched at the summit. r>4. 



Embryo, the rudimentary plantlei in ■ need, 11, 127. 



Embryonal, belonging or relating to the embryo. 



Embryo-sac, 117. 



