

GLOSSARY. 



FOR THE SECOND PART. 



Absorbent. A vessel which sucks up 

 liquids. 



Abrupt. Pinnate leaf, with an old 

 or terminal leafet. 



Acuminate. Taper-pointed, the point 

 mostly curved towards one edge of 

 the leaf, like an awl. 



Acrid. Having a hot, biting, or bitter 

 tast. 



Acidulous. Sour, partaking of an acid. 



Adjuvant. Helpful, assistant. 



Agamous. (From a, without, and ga- 

 mos, marriage.) 



Ages of plants. Ephermeral, such as 

 spring up, blossom and ripen their 

 seed in a few hours or days ; an- 

 nual, living a few months, or one 

 summer ; biennial, springing up one 

 summer and dying the following ; 

 perennial, living an indefinite period. 



Aggregate. Many springing Irom the 

 same point aggregate, compound, 

 umbellate, cymose, amentaceous, glu- 

 mose, spadiceous. 



Aggregate flower ; erected on foot- 

 stalks ; all have one common recep- 

 tacle on the stem. 



Alburnum. (From albus, white.) Soft 

 while substance in trees between the 

 liber, or inner bark and wood. It 

 is the sap-wood, formed by a depo- 

 sit of the cambium, or descending 

 sap ; in one year it becomes wood ; 

 and a new layer of alburnum is again 

 formed. 



Albumen. The farinacous part secreted 

 in most monocotyledonous seeds or 

 fruits, between the embryo and outer 

 skin, furnishing the flower chiefly 

 of the corn plants, and composed 

 of similar chemical characters with 

 the albumen of animals : it is never 

 poisonous,though the plants maybe 



Alga. Flags: plants of the order 

 Hepatica and Lichens. 



Alternate. Branches, leaves, flowers 

 etc., beginning at different distances 

 on the stem ; opposite, is when they 

 commence at the same point, base 

 standing against base. 



Alternately-pinnate leaf ; when leafets 

 are arranged alternately on each side 

 of the common footstalk or petiole. 



Anthilminthic, Destructiv'c to worms. 



Amonia. A volatile alkali existing 

 chiefly combined with acids and 

 forming salts : in the form of gas, 

 its pure state, it is composed of ni- 

 trogen and hydrogen. 



Animal Charcoal is commonly pre- 

 pared by boiling the refuse of 

 slaughter-houses and mixing it with 

 sifted coal ashes. 



Analysis. (Botanically) To ascertain 

 the name, by observing the organs, 

 and comparing them \vith scientific 

 descriptions of plants ; separation 

 of parts. 



Annual. A plant living but one year. 

 The herbage is often annual, while 

 the root is perennial j the plant is 

 then perennial. 



Anomalous. (From a without, and 

 nomos, law.) Irregular, whatever 

 forms an exception to a general 

 rule. 



Anther. (From anthos, a flower) part 

 of the stamen which contains the 

 pollen ; it is of various forms. 



Antiscorbutic. Curing eruptions or 

 scurvy. 



Antiseptic. Preventive of putrifaction. 



Antispasmodic. Good for relieving 

 spasms. 



Aperient. Having the quality of open- 

 ing. 



Aphrodisiacai. Relating to, or a cure 

 for the venereal disease. 



Aquatic. (From aqua, water.) Grow- 

 ing in, or near water. 



Arenarius. Growing in sand. Arid. 

 dry. 



Aromatic. Sweet-scented. 



Aroma. Odor, purfume. 



Astringents. Substances which con- 

 dense the fibres. 



Assimilation. The act by which orga- 

 nized bodies incorporate foreign 

 substances and convert them into 

 their own substance. 



