BOTANICAL TERMS. 



Digynia, SK, twice ; and ^wn, a woman : the name of an 

 order, or secondary division, in each of the first thirteen 

 classes in Linneus's Sexual System, except the ninth and 

 twelfth. It consists of plants, which, to their respective 

 classic characters, add the having two styles or female 

 organs. 



Dimidiated, half-round ; extending half way round. 



Dimpled, (umbilicated) having a little hollow dot. 



Duecia, from Sis twice ; and oucta, a house ; two houses : 

 the twenty-second class of the Sexual System, contain- 

 ing plants which, having no hermaphrodite flowers, pro- 

 duce male and female flowers on separate roots. 



Dipetalous, double-petalled. 



Diphyllous, double-leaved. 



Discus, or disk, signifies the centre of a radiated compound 

 flower, and generally consists of small florets, with a 

 hollow regular petal. 



Disk, (discus.) 



Dispermous, double-seeded. 



Dissectum. See Laciniatum. 



Dissemination, the scattering abroad the seeds of vegetables, 

 for the purposes of increase. 



Dissepimentum, a partition, which in dry seed-vessels, as 

 capsules and pods, divides the fruit internally into cells. 



Dissilient, bursting suddenly asunder. 



Distant, far asunder. 



Distented, (ventricosus) or bellying, as the cup of the rose. 



Distichous, double-rowed. 



Distinct, unconnected ; separated from each other. 



Divaricate, straddling. 



Diverging, (divergens) spreading wide from the stem, al- 

 most horizontally. 



Divided, (partitus) applied to a leaf, a cup, or a petal, signi- 

 fies them to be parted more than half way down. 



Divisions. See Divided. 



Dodecagynia,Jhe. name of one of the orders in the eleventh 

 class, having twelve to eighteen pistils in each flower. 



Dodecandria, from Swlcxa, twelve ; and avtjp, a husband : 

 the name of the eleventh class of the Sexual System, 

 consisting of plants with hermaphrodite flowers, which 

 have twelve stamina or male organs. 



Dodrans, a palm ; about a quarter of a yard. 



Dolabriform, hatchet-shaped leaf. 



Dorsal, fixed to the back. 



Dotted, (punctatus) marked with little hollow dots. 



Double, (didymus) applied to the antherae, where two are 

 united like a double nut. 



Double calii, when one calix has another outer one sur- 

 rounding it. 



Doubled, (conduplicatus.) 



Double germen, when two germina are united together. 



Double compound, (decompositus) leaves with the primary 

 leaf-stalk divided, so that each division forms a com- 

 pound leaf. 



Down. See Pappus. 



Down-bending, deflex. 



Downy, (leaf.) See Tomenium. 



Drooping, (nutans) grass panicles, whose spikets often hang 

 down in a beautiful pensile form. 



Drupe, a pulpy seed-vessel without valves, consisting of 

 a hard nut or stone, surrounded by a pulpy substance ; 

 as cherries, plums, &c. 



Dumosts, bushy plants. 

 - Duplicate. See Duplicated. 



Duplicated, doubled ; having the corolla doubled : or, in 

 other words, the term is expressive of the least degree of 



luxuriance of which the petals are susceptible, and is 

 exemplified in campanula with a nettle-leaf, and thorn- 

 apple with a violet flower ; it is very common in flowers 

 of one petal. 



Duplicato-crenated, doubly scolloped. 



Duplicato-pinnated, doubly serrated. 



Duplicato-ternated, doubly- threefold. 



Dust. See Pollen. 



Dusted, (pulveratus) some plants appear as if covered with 

 a kind of dust or powder. 







Ear-shaped, (auriculatus) like a human ear ; also used to 

 signify a little appendage at the base of a leaf or leafit. 



Ebracteated, without any floral leaf. 



Ecalcarated, without a spur or thorn. 



Echinated, set with prickles. 



Efflorescent, blooming ; a term expressive of the precise 

 time of the year and month, in which every plant throws 

 its first flowers. See Florescent. 



Egg-shaped, (ovatus) a shape resembling the solid substance 

 of an egg. 



Elliptic, of an equal breadth at each end. See Oval. 



Emarginatum, (emarginate) end nicked or notched. 



Embracing, (amplexicaulis) when the base of a leaf nearly 

 surrounds the stem. 



Enervious, nerveless. 



Enneandria, from cwea, nine ; and Avrfp, a husband; the 

 name of the ninth class in Linneus's Sexual System, con- 

 sisting of plants with hermaphrodite flower, with nine 

 stamina, or male organs. 



Enodis, without joints. 



Ensiform, sword-shaped, tapering to a point. 



Epulernm, the scarf-skin, or outer covering of the bark of 

 plants. 



Equilant, folded upon one another, laminated. 



Erect, in opposition to decumbent, or a nodding or droop- 

 ing flower. 



Erase, gnawed, irregularly cut or notched. 



Essential Character, the circumstance which distinguishes 

 one genus from every other. 



Eunuch, full flowers so called, which, by multiplying the 

 petals altogether, exclude the stamina or male organs of 

 generation, and thus render the seed barren. 



Even surface, level, regular, in opposition to scored or fur- 

 rowed. 



Evergreen, bearing green leaves throughout the year. 



Exarated. See Furrowed. 



Extrafoliaceous, underneath the leaves. 



Eye. See Hilum. 



Fartus, or Farcitus, filled full. 



Farina. See Pollen. 



Fasciated, bundled ; plants so called, which consist of se- 

 veral stems or stalks growing close together, so as to 

 form a compact bundle. 



Fasciculated, bundled. 



Fasciculus, a little bundle, in which the flower-stalks are 



erect, parallel, placed close to one another, and of the 

 same height, as in sweetwilliam. 



Fastigiated, flat-topped. 



Fauces, the jaws or chaps, otherwise the gaping at the top 

 of the tube of a monopetalous flower. 



Favosum, honey-combed. 



