206 GLOSSARY. 



Archegdntum (plural archegonia] : the organ in Mosses, &c., which is analogous 

 to the pistil of Flowering Plants. 



Arcuate: bent or curved like a bow. 



Areolate: marked out into little spaces or areolae. 



Arillate (seeds) furnished with an 



Aril or Arillus : a fleshy growth forming a false coat or appendage to a seed; 

 p. 135, fig. 318. 



Arfstate: awned, i. e. furnished with an arista, like the beard of Barley, &c. 



Aristulate: diminutive of the last; short-awned. 



Arrow-shaped or Arrow-headed: same as sagittate; p. 59, fig. 95. 



Articulated: jointed ; furnished with joints or articulations, where it separates 01 

 inclines to do so. Articulated leaves, p. 64. 



Artificial Classification, p 196. 



Ascending (stems, &c.), p. 37 , (seeds or ovules), p. 122. 



Asperyflliform : shaped like the brush used to sprinkle holy water ; as the stigma* 

 of many Grasses. 



Assimilation, p. 162. 



Assurgent: same as ascending, p. 37. 



Atropous or Atropal (ovules) : same as orthotropous. 



Auricidate: furnished with auricles or ear-like appendages, p. 59. 



Awl-shaped: sharp-pointed from a broader base, p. 68. 



Awn : the bristle or beard of Barley, Oats, &c. ; or any similar bristle-like ap- 

 pendage. 



Awned: furnished with an awn or long bristle-shaped tip. 



Axil : the angle on the upper side between a leaf and the stem, p. 20. 



Axile: belonging to the axis, or occupying the axis; p. 119, &c. 



Axillary (buds, &c.) : occurring in an axil, p 21, 77, &c. 



Axis : the central line of any body ; the organ round which others are attached ; 

 the root and stem. Ascending Axis, p. 9. Descending Axis, p. 9. 



Baccate : berry-like, of a pulpy nature like a berry (in Latin bacca) ; p. 127. 



Barbate : bearded ; bearing tufts, spots, or lines of hairs. 



Barbed : furnished with a barb or double hook ; as the apex of the bristle on the 



fruit of Echinospermum (Stickseed), &c. 

 Bdrbellate: said of the bristles of the pappus of some Composite (species of 



Liatris, &c ), when beset with short, stiff hairs, longer than when denticulate, 



but shorter than when plumose. 

 Barbe'llulate : diminutive of barbellate. 



Bark: the covering of a stem outside of the wood, p. 150, 152. 

 Basal: belonging or attached to the 



Base: that extremity of any organ by which it is attached to its support. 

 Bast, Bast-fibres, p. 147. 

 Beaked: ending in a prolonged narrow tip. 

 Bearded : see barbate. Beard is sometimes used popularly for awn, more conv 



monly for long or stiff hairs of any sort. 



BeJl -shaped : of the shape of a bell, as the corolla of Harebell, fig. 207, p. 102. 

 B^rry a fruit pulpy or juicy throughout, as a grape ; p. 127. 

 Bi~ (or Bis), in compound words : twice ; as 



