BOTANICAL GLOSSARY. 



ABRUPT, leaf pinnate, with an old or terminal leaflet. 

 ACUMINATE, having an open or awl-shaped point. 

 AGGREGATE, gathered together in fascicles or bundles. 

 ALTERNATE, branches, leaves, flowers, &c., starting at different 



distances on the stem. 



ALVEOLATE, with cells, resembling the honeycomb. 

 ANTHER, that part of the stamen which contains the pollen. 

 APETALOUS, plants whose floral development is without petals. 

 APPRESSED, when the limb of a leaf is pressed close upon the 



stem ; or when hairs are laid flat upon the surface of a plant 



they are said to be appressed. 

 ARMS, plants furnished with prickles and thorns, are said to be 



armed. 



AROMATIC, sweet scented. 

 AROMA, odor, perfume, fragrance. 

 ARROW-FORM, shaped like an arrow-head, hind lobes acute saggi- 



tate. 



ARTICULATED, jointed, as in the column or stem of the grass. 

 ASSURGENT, rising perpendicularly, without artificial support. 

 AWNS, the beard of barley is thus called. 

 AXILLARY, growing out of the axile; leaves are axillary when 



they grow from the angle formed by the stem and branch. 

 AXIS, a centre. 



BARREN, producing no fruit, containing stamens only. 

 BIENNIAL, a plant that produces stem and leaf one year, and dies 



the next. 



BIFID, cut half in two from the summit, two-cleft. 

 BILABIATE, corolla with two lips. 



