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decumbent, reclined on the ground, posite directions, zig-zag. 



the summit tending- to rise. floccose, woolly, 



decurrent, prolonged on the stem be- foliate, provided with leaves. 



neath the insertion. follicle, a pod composed of a single 



decussate, arranged in pairs, which carpel, opening down the inner 



successively cross each other. suture, 



dehiscence, the regular splitting open frutescent, somewhat shrubby. 



of a capsule or anther. fugacious, soon perishing or falling 



dentate, toothed, the teeth pointing off. 



outward- fulvous, tawny. 



dichotomous, 2-forked. funiculua, the stock of an ovule or 



diffuse, spreading widely and irregu- seed. 



larly. furf uraceous, bran-like, 



digitate leaflets are digitate when fusiform, spindle-shaped. 



they are all borne on the end of a galea, a helmet-shaped body. 



petiole. geniculate, bent abruptly, 



dissected, cut deeply into many lobes gibbous, somewhat swollen or en- 



or divisions. larged. 



dissepiments, the partitions in a com- glabrate, becoming glabrous or al- 



pound ovary. most so. 



diurnal, expanded during the day, glabrous, smooth, not hairy. 



closed at night. glands, small cellular organs which 



distichous, 2-ranked. secrete certain substances, such as 



distinct, free. oil. 



divaricate, widely divergent. glandular, -with glands, 



divided, cut into divisions down to glaucescent, slightly glaucous. 



the midrib. glaucous, covered with a bloom, 



drupe, a fleshy fruit containing a glomerate, closely aggregated in a 



stone, as the plum. dense head. 



echinate, armed with prickles. glume, floral bracts in grasses, 



elliptical, oval or oblong, with the gramineous, grass-like. 



ends regularly rounded. habit, tbe general aspect of a plant, 



emarginate, notched at the summit, habitat, the place where a plant 



emersed, raised out of water. grows. 



endocarp, the inner layer of a peri- hairy, beset with rather long hairs. 



carp. hastate, halberd-shaped, 



endosperm, the nutritive matter in a herb, a plant that is not woody. 



seed, surrounding the embryo- hilum. the scar of a seed, the place of 



ephemeral, lasting for a day or less. attachment, 



epigynous, upon the ovary. hirsute, with stiffish hairs, 



equitant, folded longitudinally, and hirsutulous, minutely hirsute. 



each embracing the next within. hispid, beset with stiff hairs, 



erose, eroded as if gnawed. hoary see canescent. 



exocarp, outer layer of a pericarp. horn, a spur. 



extrorse, turned outward. hyaline, transparent or partly so. 



falcate, sythe-shaped. imbricate, overlapping one another, 



farinaceous, mealy in texture. like shingles. 



fascicle, a close cluster. immersed, growing wholly under wa- 



fastigate, close, parallel and upright. ter. 



faveolate, favose see alveolate. incised, cut rather deeply and irregu- 



ferruginous, resembling iron-rust. larly. 



filiform, thread-like. incumbent the cotyledons are in- 



fimbriate, fringed. cumbent when the back of one of 



flstulose, hollow and cylindric. them lies against the caulicle. 



flabelliform, fan-shaped. infericr.growing below some other 



flavescent, yellowish. organ, 



flexuous or flexuous, bending 1 in op- insertion, the place or mode of attach- 



