GLOSSARY. 



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Axile. Situated in the axis. 

 Axillary. Situated in an axil. 

 Axis. The central line of any organ or sup- 

 port of a group of organs ; a stem, etc. 



Baccate. Berry-like ; pulpy throughout. 

 Barbed. Furnished with rigid points or 



short bristles, usually reflexed like the barb 



of a fish-hook. 



Earbellate. Finely barbed. 

 Barbulate. Finely bearded. 

 Basal) Basilar. At or pertaining to the 



base. 



Basijixed. Attached by the base. 

 Beaked. Ending in a beak or prolonged tip. 

 Bearded. Bearing a long awn, or furnished 



with long or stiff hairs. 

 Berry. A fruit the whole pericarp of which 



is fleshy or pulpy. 

 Bl- or Bis-. A Latin prefix signifying two, 



twice, or doubly. 

 Bidentate. Having two teeth. 

 Biennial. Of two years' duration. 

 Bifid. Two-cleft. 

 Bilabiate. Two-lipped. 

 Bilocellate. Having two secondary cells. 

 Bilocular. Two-celled. 

 Bisexual. Having both stamens and pistils. 

 Bladdery. Thin and inflated. 

 Blade. The limb or expanded portion of a 



leaf, etc. 



Bract. A more or less modified leaf subtend- 

 ing a flower or belonging to an inflorescence, 



or sometimes cauline. 

 Bracteate. Having bracts. 

 Bracteolate. Having bractlets. 

 Bracteo'se. With numerous or conspicuous 



bracts. 

 Bractlet. A secondary bract, as one upon 



the pedicel of a flower. 



Bristle. A stiff hair or any similar outgrowth. 

 Bud. The rudimentary state of a stem or 



branch ; an unexpanded flower. 

 Bulb. A subterranean leaf-bud with fleshy 



scales or coats. 



Bulbiferous. Bearing bulbs. 

 Bulblet. A small bulb, especially one borne 



upon the stem. 

 Bulbous. Having the character of a bulb. 



Caducous. Falling off very early. 



Calcarate. Produced into or having a spur. 



Callus. A hard protuberance or callosity. 



Calyculate. Having bracts around the calyx 

 imitating an outer calyx. 



Calyptra. The membranous hood or cover- 

 ing of the capsule in Hepaticae and Mosses. 



Calyx. The outer perianth of the flower. 



Campanulate. Bell-shaped ; cup-shaped 

 with a broad base. 



Campy lospermous. Having seeds with lon- 

 gitudinally involute margins, as in some 

 Umbelliferse. 



Campy lotropous (ovule or wed). So curved 



as to bring the apex and base nearly to- 

 gether. 



Canaliculate. Longitudinally channelled. 



Canescent. Hoary with gray pubescence. 



Capitate. Shaped like a head ; collected into 

 a head or dense cluster. 



Capitellate. Collected into a small head. 



Capsular. Belonging to or of the nature of 

 a capsule. 



Capsule. A dry dehiscent fruit composed of 

 more than one carpel; the spore-case of 

 Hepaticae, etc. 



Capsuliferous. Capsule-bearing. 



Carinate. Having a keel or a projecting lon- 

 gitudinal medial line on the lower surface. 



Carpel. A simple pistil, or one member of a 

 compound pistil. 



Cartilaginous. Of the texture of cartilage ; 

 firm and tough. 



Caruncle. An excrescence or appendage at 

 or about the hilum of a seed. 



Carunculate. Having a caruncle. 



Caryopsis. A grain, as of grasses ; a seed- 

 like fruit with a thin pericarp adnate to the 

 contained seed. 



Castaneous. Of a chestnut color ; brown. 



Catkin. An ament. 



Caudate. Having a slender tail-like ap- 

 pendage. 



Caudex. The persistent base of an otherwise 

 annual herbaceous stem. 



Caulescent. Having a manifest stem. 



Cauline. Belonging to the stem. 



Cavernous Hollow ; full of air-cavities. 



Cell. One of the minute vesicles, of very va- 

 rious forms, of which plants are formed. 

 Any structure containing a cavity, as the 

 cells of an anther, ovary, etc. 



Cellular (tissue). Composed of short trans- 

 parent thin-walled cells, in distinction from 

 fibrous or vascular. 



Cespitose. Growing in tufts ; forming mats 

 or turf. 



Chaff. A small thin scale or bract, becoming 

 dry and membranous. 



Chaffy. Having or resembling chaff. 



Channelled. Deeply grooved longitudinally, 

 like a gutter. 



Chartaceous. Having the texture of writing, 

 paper. 



Chlorophyll. The green grains within tht 

 cells of plants. 



Chlorophyllose. Containing chlorophyll. 



Ciliate. Marginally fringed with hairs. 



Ciliolate. Minutely ciliate. 



Cinereous Ash-color. 



Circinate. Coiled from the top downward, 

 as the young frond of a fern. 



Circumscissile. Dehiscing by a regular 

 transverse circular line of division. 



Clavate. Club-shaped; gradually thick- 

 ened upward. 



Cleistogamous. Fertilized in the bud, with- 

 out the opening of the flower. 



