GLOSSAKY. XY11 



globose cyme lias flowers so placed as to form a globose 

 mass. A scorpioid cynie produces only the external branch 

 of each pair, except the first. 

 Cymose ; arranged in a cynie. 



Deciduous ; falling off. 



Declining ; straight, but pointing downwards. 



Decumbent ; lying on the ground, but tending to rise at the end. 



Decurrent; when the limb of a leaf is prolonged down the 



stem below the point of attachment of the midrib. 

 Decussate ; opposite leaves, but the successive pairs placed at 



right angles to each other. 



Deflexed ; curved downwards or towards the back. 

 Dehiscence ; the mode in which an organ opens. 

 Deltoid ; fleshy with a triangular transverse section. 

 Dentate ; with short equilateral triangular teeth. When these 



are again dentate, the whole is doubly dentate, not bidentate, 



which means having two teeth. 

 Denticulate ; finely dentate. 



Depressed ; when flattened vertically or at the top. 

 Determinate inflorescence ends in a flower. 

 Dicotyledonous ; with two opposite cotyledons. 

 Didymous ; formed of two similar parts attached to each other 



by a small portion of their margin. 

 Diffuse ; widely spreading. 

 Digitate-, fingered; of several leaves all starting from the top 



of the petioles. 



Dioecious ; with the sexes on different plants. 

 Disk ; a fleshy space from which the stamens and pistils spring, 



or between them ; the central part of a head (capitulum j. 

 Dissepiments j vertical plates dividing an ovary into parts : 



septa. 

 Distichous', arranged above each other in two rows on opposite 



sides of an axis. 



Distinct ; separate from its neighbours. 

 Divaricate ; spreading at an obtuse angle. 

 Diverging ; gradually separating. 

 Dorsal ; attached to, or on the back. 



Drupe -, a one-celled superior fruit, not bursting, fleshy exter- 

 nally, stony within, containing one or two seeds. 



Echinate ; armed with straight slender prickles like a hedge- 

 hog. 



Elliptic ; oval but acute at each end. 

 Elongate ; much lengthened. 

 Emarginate ; slightly notched at the end. 

 Embryo ; the young plant as first seen in the seed. 



