GLOSSARY. 



ABORTION, the imperfect formation or ab- 



sence of a part. 

 ABRUPT, ending suddenly. 

 ACAULESCENT, apparently stemless. 

 ACCUMBENT, the radicle lying against the 



edges of the cotyledons. 

 ACEROSE, needle-shaped, like pine leaves. 

 ACUMINATE, ending in a tapering point. 

 ACUTE, merely sharp-pointed. 

 ADNATE, growing fast to. When the an- 



ther seems to be attached by its whole 



length to the filament. 

 AGGREGATE, crowded into a cluster. 

 AKENE, a 1 -seeded seed-like fruit. 

 ALBUMEN, nourishment in the seed not 



forming part of the embryo. 

 ANDROUS, refers to stamens. 

 ANTERIOR, on the side of the flower next 



the bract. 



APETALOUS, without petals. 

 APPRESSED, lying flat, or close together. 

 ASCENDING, rising obliquely. 

 ATTENUATE, tapering gradually. 

 AURICULATE, ear-like lobes at the base. 

 AWN, an appendage like the beard of barley. 

 AXIL, the angle between leaf and stem, 



2-cleft to about the middle. 

 BILABIATE, 2-lipped. 

 BLADE, the broad portion of a leaf 



BRACT, the leaf which subtends the flower. 

 BBACTLET, a bract on a pediceL 



CADUCOUS, falling off at the time of ex- 

 pansion. 



CAMPANULATE, bell-shaped. 



CANESCENT, whitened with fine close pu- 

 bescence. 



CAPILLARY, like a hair. 



CAPITATE, having a head, or collected inta 

 a head. 



CAPSULE, any compound dehiscent fruit. 



CARPEL, a simple pistil, or element of a 

 compound one. 



CAUDATE, tailed. 



CAULESCENT, having an obvious stem. 



CAULINE, relating to a stem. 



CILIATE, fringed with hairs. 



CLAVATE, club-shaped. 



CLAW, the narrowed base of a petal. 



CLEFT, cut to about the middle. 



COHESION, the union of like organs. 



CONFLUENT, running together, or blending. 



CONGLOMERATE, thickly clustered. 



CONNATE, united from the first. 



CONNECTIVE, the part of an anther can* 

 necting the cells. 



CONNTVENT, coming together or mating. 



CONVOLUTE, rolled up. 



COKDATE, heart-shaped with th ooint upk 



