GLOSSARY. 



pistils in another ; on the same plant 

 or on different plants. 



Demulcent, softening, molif'ying. 



Diaphoretic, promoting perspiration. 



Dicotyledonous. With two cotyledons 

 or seed lobes. 



Digitate. Like fingers. When one 

 petiole sends off several leaflets 

 from a single point at its extremity. 



Digynia. Having two pistils. 



Ditecious. Having staminate and pis- 

 tillate flowers on different plants. 



Disk. The whole surface of a leaf, or 

 top of a compound flower, as op- 

 posed to its rays. 



Diurnus. Enduring but a day. 



Diuretic, promoting urine. 



Drupe. Fleshy pericarp, enclosing a 

 stone or nut. Drupaceous } Resem- 

 bling, or bearing drupes. 



Dulcis. Sweet. Dumosus. Bushy. 



Duplex- Double. 



Dyspepsia, difficult digestion, desease 

 of digestive organs. 



Echinate. Beset with prickles, as a 

 hedge-hog. 



Ecostate. Without nerves or ribs. 



Edible. Good for food, esculent. 



Eflorescentia. Effloresco, to bloom, 

 expressive of the time of the 

 year, and month in which every 

 plant blossoms. Efflorescence is ap- 

 plied to the powdered substance 

 found on Lichens. 



Effoliation. Premature falling off oi 

 leaves, by deseases or accidental 

 causes. 



Egret or Aigrette. Feathery or hairy 

 crown of seeds, as the down of 

 thistles and dandelions. 



Elaborate, done with labour, with much 

 care and attention. 



Eliminated, released, openend, rejected 



Embrocation, fomenting, application 

 a lotion, 



Emarginate. Having a notch at the 

 end, refuse. 



Embryo. (From embrao, to bud forth. 

 The germ of a plant ; corculum. 



Emollient. Softening and relaxing 

 to the animal fibre. 



Endocarp. Inside skin of a pericarp 



Endogenous. Stems which grow from 

 the centre outwardly, as in monoco 

 tyledons. 



Ensifprm. Sword-form, two-edged, 



as in the flag and iris. 

 Entire. Even and whole at the edge. 



Epicarp. (Epi, upon, and karpos, 

 fruit.) Outer skin of the pericarp. 

 Epidermis. (From epi, upon, and der- 

 ma, skin.) Cuticle or outer skin. 



Equivalent of the same value or pro- 

 portions of the same thing in dif- 

 ferent substances. 



Equinoctial, relating or belonging to 

 the equator, the imaginary line 23 

 either way from a central line 

 around the earth or in the heavens. 



Eroded. Appearing as if gnawed at the 



edge. 



Esculent. Eatable. 



Zver green. Remaining green through 

 the year, not deciduous. 



Evolution, unfolding, the theory of 

 germination. Evolve, to unfold, dis- 

 entangle. 



Exhale, evaporation, to give off va- 

 por, etc. 



Exogenous. Stems which grow exter- 

 nally. 



Exotic. Plants brought from foreign 

 countries. 



'xcrete, to eject, throw off'. Excre- 

 tories, vessels which excrete. 



Exuvice, the remains, cast off skins or 

 shells of animals. 



Factitious. (From facio, to make.) 

 Not natural, produced by art. 



Families. In Botany a natural union 

 of several genera into groups ; some- 

 times synonymous with Natural 

 Orders. 



Farina. (From/ar, corn.) Meal or 

 flour. Glutinous parts of wheat and 

 other seeds, obtained by grinding 

 and sifting. It consists of gluten, 

 starch, mucilage, etc. Polenisalso 

 called farina. 



Fascicle. A bundle. Fasciculate. Col- 

 lected in bundles. 



Febrile, relating to a fever. 



Feculent, dreggy, muddiness, or 

 starchy. 



Ferns. Cryptogamous plants, with the 

 fruit on the back of the leaves, or in 

 spikes of minute capsules opening 

 transversly. 



Fertile. Pistillate, yielding fruit. 



Fibre. Thread-like part. 



