PLANTS OV BEEMUDA* Hi 



GLOSSARY— OonUnued, 



]B'iLAMENT, the stalk of the s^tamen which bears the anther. 



Floret, small individual flowers of a head or cluster. 



Follicle, a one-celled, many-seeded carpel, opening along one side. 



Geminate, twin, two together. 



Glaxds, cells containing oils, &c. 



Heiimai'hrodite, containing both stamens and ovary in the same 



flower. 

 Hypogyxous, arising from below the ovary. 

 Imkkicate, overlapping like tiles or slates. 

 Indehiscext, not opening. 

 Ineeuiok, the ovary when the calyx is adherent to it, the latter 



being then superior, 

 IxvoLucEL, involucres surrounding the secondary branches of a 



cluster. 

 l.woLUCRE, a whorl of bracts surrounding a cluster of flowers. 

 Lanceolate, lance or spear-head shaped. 

 Leaflets, the leaves or parts of a compound leaf. 

 LiGULATE, strap-shaped. 



Lyrate or LYRE-snAPED, j)innatifld with the terminal lobe largest. 

 MoxAnELPiious, united into one bundle. 

 NoDBs, joints of the stem. 

 OiJ, reversely, as ohnvate, reversely ovate, &c. 

 Ovary, the part of the flower containing the young seeds. 

 Ovules, young seeds. 

 Palmate, a leaf with the lobes spreading like the fingers of the 



open hand. 

 Paxicle, flowers borne on branched divisions of the axis. 

 Paitus, the bristles or hairs which crown the fruit of Composite. 

 Perennial, living several years. 

 Perigyxous, inserted on the calyx. 

 Persistent, remaining, not falling off. 

 Petals, the leaflets which compose the corolla. 

 Petiole, the stalk of the leaf. 



Pinnate, a leaf bearing leaflets on each side of the midrib. 

 Pinn^, the branches or divisions of a pinnate leaf. 

 Pinnatifid, a leaf divided about half way from margin to midi'ib. 

 Placenta, the connection of the ovule to the ovary. 

 Pollen, the fertilizing powder contained in the anther. 

 Polygamous, flowers male, female, and hermaphrodite. 



