366 GLOSSARY 



Basal, the lowermost part next the point of origin. 



Basifixed, of anthers where the filament joins stiffly at their base. 



Berry, a fleshy fruit with small seeds immersed in pulpy placentae. 



Bicarpellary, composed of two carpels, p. 104. 



Bi-labiate, two-lipped. 



Bilateral, an irregular flower with two planes of symmetry. 



Bostryx, a helicoid cyme, p. 35. 



Bract, a leaf, usually reduced, subtending a flowering pedicel. 



Bracteate, bearing bracts, p. 305. 



Bracteole, a small bract between the normal bract and the individual 

 flower. 



Branch -tendrils, tendrils shown by origin and position to be branches, 

 p. 291. 



Bud-scales, scales enveloping the buds, p. 254. 



Caducous, falling very early before the opening of the flower, p. 20. 



Calyculus, an outer, secondary, calyx-like covering, formed of bracts. 



Calyx, the outer floral envelope. 



Calyx-tube, the cup-like hollow of perigynous flowers, from the margins 

 of which the stamens, petals, &c., spring, p. 52. 



Campanulate, bell-shaped. 



Campylotropous, of an ovule curved on its axis like a horse-shoe, p. 114. 



Capitate, with a head-like swelling at the apex, p. 303. 



Capitulate, of the nature of a capitulum or head, p. 163. 



Capitulum, florets crowded into a head, p. 24. 



Capsule, a dry dehiscent fruit, splitting by valves, pores, &c. 



Carcerulus, the name sometimes given to the dry indehiscent fruit of 

 the Lime, &c., p. 286. 



Carina, the boat-like structure formed by the two inferior petals of a 

 papilionaceous flower, p. 149. 



Carpellary scale, the outer of the two scales in the cone of Abietineae, 

 &c., p. 139. 



Carpels, the organs on which the ovules are borne. 



Caryopsis, the dry indehiscent fruit of Grasses, &c. , p. 273. 



Catkin, strictly a deciduous spike bearing unisexual flowers, but some- 

 what loosely used, p. 25. 



Cell, the morphological unit of the plant. 



Cellulose, the material of which vegetable cell-walls, membrane, &c., 

 are composed. 



Cell-wall, the film separating any two cells. 



Centrifugal, the flowers opening in order from the inside of the inflores- 

 cence to the periphery. 



Centripetal, the flowers opening in order from the periphery of the 

 inflorescence inwards, p. 22. 



Chagreened, with a rough almost file-like surface, p. 355. 



