GLOSSABY. 



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INVOLUCRE, a set of bracts surrounding a 



flower cluster. 

 INVOLUTE, rolled inward. 

 IRREGULAR, unequal in size or shape. 



LACINIATE, cut into narrow incisions. 

 LAMINA, blade of a leaf or petal. 

 LATERAL, pertaining to the side. 

 LEGUME, fruit like a pea-pod. 

 LIMB, the exposed part of a corolla, calyx, 



etc. , or the blade of a petal, etc. 

 LINE, the twelfth of an inch. 

 LINEAR, narrow and much longer than 



wide, the margins parallel. 

 LOBE, any division or projecting part. 



MEROUS, the parts of a flower (5-merous, 



the parts in fives). 

 MUCRONATE, abruptly tipped with a short 



point. 



NERVES, parallel and simple veins. 

 NODDING, the apex or top pointing down- 

 ward. 



OB-, prefixed means reverse of; as, ob-cord- 



ate, inverted heart-shaped, i. e., the 



stem attached to the apex. 

 OBLIQUE, one-sided. 

 OBLONG, long-elliptical. 

 OCHROLEUCOUS, pale dull yellow. 

 OVAL, broadly elliptical. 

 OVARY, that portion of the pistil which 



becomes the seed vessel. 

 OVATE, like the longitudinal section of an 



egg. 

 OVOID, egg-shaped. 



PALMATE, lobed so that the lobes point 

 away from the end of the petiole, as 

 in an ivy or a maple leaf. 



PANICLE, a raceme branching irregularly. 

 PARTED, cut almost through. 

 PECTINATE, like the teeth of a comb. 

 PEDICEL, the stalk of a single blossom in a 



cluster. 

 PEDUNCLE, the stalk of a cluster or of a 



solitary flower. 

 PERFOLIATE, when the stem seems to pass 



through the leaf. 



PERFORATE, with holes or transparent dots. 

 PERIGYNOUS, borne on the calyx. t . 



PERSISTENT, remaining until the fruit has 



grown. 



PETIOLE, the leaf stem. 

 PETIOLULE, the stem of a leaflet. 

 PILOSE, with distinct straight hairs. 

 PINNATE, a compound leaf with the leaflets 



along the side of a common petiole. 



PlNNATELY CLEFT, LOBED, etc., with the 



lobes along the sides of a long leaf. 

 PLACENTA, the part of the ovary which 



bears the seeds. 

 POD, a dry dehiscent fruit. 

 POME, a fruit like a pear or apple. 

 POSTERIOR, next the stem. 

 PROCUMBENT, lying along the ground. 

 PROSTRATE, lying flat like a melon-vine. 

 PUBESCENT, with soft or downy hairs. 

 PUNCTATE, dotted as if by holes. 

 PUNGENT, rigid sharp-pointed. 



RACEME, elongated flower bunches, with 

 the oldest flowers below and on ped- 

 icels. 



RADICAL, coming from the root (apparently). 



RADICLE, the stem of an embryo. 



RENIFORM, kidney-shaped. 



REPAND, the margin slightly wavy. 



RETRORSE, directed backward. 



RETUSE, slightly notched at a rounded apex. 



