Embryo The rudimentary plant contained in a seed. 



Entire Not toothed. 



Filament See Stamen. 



Fruit The matured ovary and its contents, together with any appen- 

 dages of the flower which seem to form an integral part, as the calyx 

 of an Apple or a Eose. 



Head When numerous flowers are arranged upon a disk or receptacle ; 

 examples : Ox-eye Daisy, Clover. 



Involucre A circle of bracts round a flower or flower-head. 



Irregular With some of the parts different in size or shape. 



Lobed Divided to about the middle. 



Ovary See Pistil. 



Panicle A compound raceme, or a raceme wjth branched footstalks; 

 example : Oats. 



Pedicel The stalk of a flower in a cluster. 



Peduncle The stalk of a flower. 



Petals The separate parts of a corolla. 



Petiole The stalk of a leaf. 



Pinnate Feather-like, having leaflets on each side of a main stalk. 



Pinnatifid Cut like a pinnate leaf. 



Pistil The female organ of a flower, composed of the ovary, which 

 contains the seed, the stigma, a soft viscid part of the pistil which 

 receives the pollen grains, and the style, which supports the stigma. 



Pollen See Stamen. 



Pubescent Downy. 



Raceme Like a spike but with the flowers borne upon footstalks of an 

 equal and of a noticeable length ; example : Lily-of-the-Valley. 



Radicle The first root that comes from a seed. 



Regular With the parts uniform in size and shape. 



Rootstock A creeping stem below the surface of the ground. 



Runcinate Having the teeth of a leaf directed towards the base. 



Scarious Membranous. 



Seed The embryo with its covering, if this is not part of the ovary. ' 



Sepals The separate parts of the calyx. 



Sessile Without a footstalk. 



Spatulate Expanded above and narrowed at the base. 



Spike When the flowerstalks are very short or wanting on a long cylin- 

 drical flower-cluster. 



Stamen The male organ of a flower composed of the anther, which 

 holds the fertilizing pollen grains, and the support called the fila- 

 ment. 



Stellate Shaped like a star. 



Stigma See Pistil. 



Stipule A small leafy expansion of the base of a petiole. 



Style See Pistil. 



Truncate Cut off abruptly. 



Umbel When the flowers are supported upon footstalks rising from 

 the summit of a general footstalk ; example : Geranium. If each 

 of the footstalks of an umbel bears a secondary umbel as in the 

 Carrot, it is a compound umbel. 



In Botany the word fruit signifies the enlarged and matured ovary, 

 whatever its substance may be and whether fit to eat or not. In the small 

 fruits of many weeds it is sometimes difficult to decide whether these are 



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