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GLOSSARIAL INDEX. 



Wittd. Enum. See Willdenow's Enumeration, 

 Sec. 



Wittd. Enum. Suppl. Id., Enumeratio Planta- 

 rum Horti Berolinensis. Supplementum post- 

 huraum addidit Schlechtendal. 



Wittd. Herb. Willdenow's Herbarium. 



Willd. Hort. Ber. See Wittd. Enum. 



Willd. MS-S. Willdenow in Manuscript. 



Willd. Sp. See Willd-. Sp. PI. 



Willd. Spec. See ibid. 



Willd. Sp. PI. Id., Linnzei Species Plantarum. I 

 Berol. 1797- 5 vols. 8vo. 



Willdenow's Baumzucht. Id., Berlinische Baum- ! 

 zucht. Berol. 1811. 8vo. 



Willdenow's Enumeration of the Plants of the \ 

 Berlin Royal Garden. Id., Enumeratio Planta- I 

 rum Horti Berolinensis. Berol, 1809. 2 vols. 8vp. I 



Wilden's Vegetation of Dalmatia. Reviewed in \ 

 Card Mag. vol. xiv. p. 13. 



Winch Geogr. Distrib. An Essay on the Geo- 

 graphical Distribution of Plants through the 



Counties of Northumberland, Cumberland, and 

 Durham. By N. J. Winch. Newcastle. Ed. 

 2. 1825. Painph. 8vo. 



Witheriwft Botany. A Systematical Arrange- 

 ment of British Plants. By W. Withering, M.D. 

 Birmingham, 1776, 2 vols. 8vo ; ed, 7. with ad- 

 ditions, London, 1830, 4 vols. 8vo. 



WoodviUe's Med. But. Medical Botany; con- 

 taining Systematic and General Descriptions, 

 with Plates, of all the Medicinal Plants, indi- 

 genous and exotic, &c. By W. Woodvilie, 

 M.D. London, 1790. 3 vols" 4to. 



mwli-iUSs Med. Bot. Suppl. See IVoodvilU's 

 Med. But. 



Zncc. Flora. Siebold (P. F. de) and Zuccarini 

 (J. G.), Flora Japonica. ' fol. 



GLOSSARIAL INDEX. 



A. 



Accessory, something added to the usual number 



of organs. 



Accumbent, reclining or lying on. 

 Acerose, slender, or needle-shaped, as in the 



leaves. of some of the cone-bearing trees. 

 Achenium, a dry fruit, which does not open when 



ripe, and contains one seed not adhering to the 



pericarp. 



Acicular, needle-shaped. 

 Acuminated, having a taper point. 

 Acute, sharp-pointed 

 Atinate, grown to for its whole length. 

 ^Estivation, the folding of the parts of a flower in 



the bud. 



Aggregate, clustered. 

 Albumen, the solid farinaceous part of the seed, 



destined to nourish the embryo. 

 Albuminous, furnished with albumen. 

 Alburnum, the sap-wood of trees. 

 Alveolate, honeycomb-like. 

 Ament, a catkin, or inflorescence consisting of 



chaffy scales, arranged along a thread-like re- 

 ceptacle. 



Amentaceous, producing or bearing aments. 

 Anastomosing, uniting of nerves and veins. 

 Androgynous, producing flowers of both sexes on 



the same plant. 

 Angnlnte, having acute angles. 

 Annulated, ringed, exhibiting circular promi- 

 nences. 



Antherijerous, furnished with anthers. 

 Anther, the part of the stamen which contains 



the pollen. 



Apex, the end, or termination. 

 Apicarp. See Epicarp. 

 Apiculated, terminated in a little point, or 



prickle. 

 Appendtcled, having an additional small leaf at 



the base of the petiole. 

 Approximate, near to. 



Arborescent, having a tendency to become a tree . 

 Argutely, sharply. 



Aril, I an enlargement of the placenta adher- 

 Arillus, $ ing to the hilum of seeds, and 'sometimes 



enveloping them ; exemplified in the outer 



orange-coloured coat of the seed of u6ny- 



mus europs^us. 

 Arrow-shaped, lobed so as to resemble a barbed 



arrow. 



Articulate, jointed. 

 Assurgent, becoming erect. 



A'/lenua^ea, ] ^dually tapering to a point. 

 Auricle, an ear-like appendage. 



Awl-shaped, narrow pointed. 



Awn, a long bristly appendage, as the beard of 



corn, &c. 

 Axillary, situated in the axils, or angles formed 



by the union of the leaf and stem. 



B. 



Saccate, berry-like ; that is, with the seeds buried 

 in a fleshy substance, enclosed in a thin outer 

 skin. 



Beaked, ending in a hard curved point. 



Belli/ing, swelling unequally on one side. 



Biaristate, doubly awned. 



Bibracteate, furnished with two bracteas. 



Bicallose, having two small callosities, or protu- 

 berances. 

 I Bicuspidate, having two points. 



Bifid, two-cleft. 

 I Bilabiate, having two lips. 



Bilamellate, divided into two flat parts. 



Bilocular, two-celled. 



Bipartite, two-parted. 



Bipinnate, twice pinnate. 



Bisetose, having two bristles. 



Bilernate, twice ternate. 



Bladdery, swelled out, hollow. 



Bossed, convex, and having a projecting point in 

 the centre. 



Bractea, the floral leaf, situated immediately 

 under the flower. 



Bracteale, furnished with bracteas. 



Bracteole, a small bractea. 



Bran-like, having a scaly scurfy appearance. 



Bristle-pointed, terminating in a bristle. 



C. 



Caducous, falling off soon : a calyx which falla 

 off before the expansion of the corolla is said to 

 be caducous. 



Calyculate, having bracteas so disposed as to re- 

 semble an additional calyx. 



Calyptra a thin extinguisher- shaped covering, 

 or hollow cone. 



Calyx, the outer envelope of a flower. 



Cambium, elaborated sap. 



Campanulate, bell-shaped. 



Canaliculate, channeled, furrowed. 



Cunescent, somewhat white, hoary. 



Capillary, hair-like, very slender. 



Capitate, growing in a head ; round and blunt. 



Ca^Oellaft ] knobbed 5 growing in small headg. 



