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ANDRIA, male ; Monandria with one stamen, &c. 



ANDRCECIUM, the male organs of a flower. 



ANDROGYNOUS, producing male and female flowers on the same 



head and on one plant. 



ANGIOSPERMOUS, seeds enclosed in a distinct seed vessel or pericarp. 

 ANISOMEROUS, when any one of the whorls of the flower has a 



different number from the others. 

 ANNUALS, plants sown from seed, producing flowers and fruit, 



then dying in the same year. 



ANTERIOR, in front ; the part of a flower next the bract. 

 ANTHER, the portion of the stamen on the top of the filament 



which bears the fecundating pollen. 

 ANTHERIDIUM, the male organ in Cryptogamic plants, analogous 



to the anther. 



AN THESIS, the period when flowers open. 

 ANTHOS, a Greek word signifying a flower. 

 APETALOUS, having no petals, as in the Willows. 

 APICULATE, terminating in a small short hard point. 

 APOCARPOUS, carpels not united. 

 APPRESSED. See ADPRESSED. 

 APPROXIMATE, near together. 

 ARBORESCENT, like a tree. 

 ARCHEGONIUM, the germ cell in Cryptogamous plants, analogous 



to the pistil. 



ARCHING, ARCUATE, curved in the form of an arch. 

 ARILLUS, an aftergrowth from the placenta covering the seed, as 



in the Passion-flower. 

 ARILLODE, an aftergrowth from the micropyle turning over the 



seed ; the mace of the Nutmeg is composed of this growth. 

 ARISTATE, having a beard or awn, as in barley. 

 ARTICULATE, furnished with joints, separating freely. 

 ASCENDING, curving upwards, then erect. 

 ASPEROUS, rough with short hairs. 

 ATTENUATE, gradually narrowing to a slender point. 

 AURICLES, appendages or ear -like lobes at the base of leaves. 

 AWNED, terminating in a long stiff bristle point. 

 AXILLARY, rising from the axil of a leaf. 

 Axis, the centre around which development takes place ; the stem 



is the ascending axis, and in opposition to it the root is the 



descending axis. 



BACCATE, a soft pulpy berry, as the Gooseberry, indehiscent. 

 BARK, the exterior covering of the stem in trees. 

 BEAK, a long point resembling the beak of a bird, hard and sharp. 

 Bi or Bis, twice, used in compound words, as bidentate, twice 



dentate. 

 BIENNIAL, a plant which produces neither flowers nor fruit during 



its first year, but does so its second, then dies away. 

 BIFARIOUS, placed in two opposite rows. 



