252 MANUAL OF MODERN VITICULTURE. 



GLOSSARY OF THE PRINCIPAL SCIENTIFIC 

 TERMS USED IN THE PRESENT VOLUME.* 



ABNORMAL Contrary to the general rule. 



ABORTIVE An organ or flower is said to be abortive when its development 



has been arrested at a very early stage. 

 ACUMINATE, leaf (Bot.) Ending in a sharp point. 

 ADAPTABILITY The quality of being capable of adaptation. 

 ADAPTATION When speaking of a plant, that act or process of adapting 



itself to certain conditions of the surroundings. 

 ALLUVIAL (Geol.) Composed of alluvium ; relating to the deposits made 



by flowing waters, washed away from one place and deposited in 



another, as alluvial soil. 

 ALPINE DILUVIUM (Geol.) A deposit of superficial loam, sand, gravel, 



stone, &c., caused by former action of flowing waters, or the melting 



of glacial ice in the Alp ranges, South of France. 

 AMPELOPSIS (Bot.) A family of plants closely related to Vitis, commonly 



called Virginian creepers. 

 ANALOGOUS See Analogy. 

 ANALOGY That resemblance of structure which depends upon similarity 



of relations. Such structures are said to be analogous or analogues to 



each other. 



ANASTOMOSIS Intercommunication between two or more vessels. 

 ANTHERS (Bot.) The summits of the stamens of flowers in which the 



pollen or fertilizing dust is produced. 



APEX (Bot.) The tip, top, point, or summit of a leaf or stem. 

 ARANEOUS (Bot. ) Cobweblike ; extremely thin and delicate down on vine 



leaves. 

 AREOLAR Filled with interstices or small spaces, as between the fibres. 



composing organs or vessels of plants. 

 ASYMETRICAL Having the two sides unlike. 

 ATAVISM See Reversion, 

 ATROPINE A white crystallizable poison, extracted from different plants, 



remarkable for its power of dilating the pupil of the eye. 

 AUTOFECUNDATION Self-impregnation. 

 BATHONIAN Applied to rocks belonging to a certain division of the 



Jurassic age. The term refers to the age of the rocks alone, and not 



to their character or composition. 



BIFURCATION A forking or division into two branches. 

 BINARY HYBRID Hybrid resulting from the crossing of two cepages only. 

 BLOOM When speaking of fruit, the delicate powdery external coating, as- 



on grapes. 

 BOLTED SULPHUR Roll sulphur, sifted by means of a bolter, and reduced 



to a fine powder. 



CALCAREOUS Partaking of the nature of limestone. 

 CALYX The outer covering of a flower. 

 CAMBIUM (Bot.) A series of formative cells lying outside the wood proper 



and inside of the inner bark ; the growth of the new wood takes place 



in the Cambium, which is very soft. 



* This glossary has been given because several viticulturists have complained that 

 some of the terms used in previous publications were unintelligible to them. (Trans. 



