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 EXPLANATION 



OF 



THE BOTANICAL TERMS 



MADE USE OF IN THIS VOLUME. 



AGGREGATE ; a term applied to flowers which consist 

 of several florets placed upon one receptacle, and 

 included within one common calyx, but in which the 

 anthers are not united ; as Scab'ius and Teasel, in 

 the class Tetrandria. 



ALTERNATE, branches, leaves, or flowers ; coming 

 out regularly one above another, but on different 

 sides ; not opposite. 



ANGIOSPER'MIA ; the name of one of the orders of the 

 class Didynamia ; in which the seeds are enclosed in 

 a seed-vessel. 



ANNUAL, plants or roots ; living only one year. 



AN'THER ; the uppermost part of a Stamen, fixed upon 

 the top of the filament, and containing the Pollen- 

 [Plate 1.] 



ARBORES'CENT, stem; distinguished from herbace- 

 ous, becoming woody. 



ARROW-SHAPED ; like the head of an arrow : as the 

 leaves of common Sorrel, or the anther of the Crocus. 

 [Plate 5.] 



AWL-SHAPED ; slender, and becoming fine towards the 

 end, like an awl ; as the filaments of the flowering 

 Rush. [Plate 11.] 



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