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KEY AND FLORA 



Dissected, deeply divided or cut 



into many segments. 

 Drupe, a stone fruit such as a peach 



or a plum. 



Equitant, leaves astride of those 

 within them, thus appearing in a 

 cross section like the diagram, 



Even-pinnate, abruptly pinnate, 

 i.e. with no leaflet at the end. 



Fascicle, a close cluster or bundle 



of flowers, leaves, stems, or roots. 

 Fertile, capable of producing fruit ; 



fertile flowers, those which have 



pistils. 



Filiform, thread-shaped. 

 Fleshy, succulent, thick and full of 



sap. 

 Funiculus, the little stalk which 



connects a seed or ovule with the 



placenta. 



Gland : (1) a structure which secretes 

 something, as the knobs on the 

 hairs of sundew ; (2) any knob 

 or swelling. 



Glume, one of the two sterile, 

 chaffy bracts at the base of a 

 grass spikelet. 



Herbaceous, with no stem above- 

 ground which lives through the 

 winter, not woody 

 or shrubby. 



Imbricate, overlap- 

 ping, as the seg- 

 ments of some 

 perianths in the Imbricate 



bud. At least one segment must 

 be wholly outside and one wholly 

 inside. 



Indefinite, too im^ny to be easily 

 counted. / 



Indehiscent, not splitting open reg- 

 ularly. 



Introduced, term applied to plants 

 purposely brought into a region 

 by man. 



Involucrate, provided with an in- 

 volucre. 



Keel, the two anterior and united 

 petals of a papilionaceous corolla. 



Key, a winged fruit like that of the 

 ash or maple. 



Limb, the border or spreading part 

 of a gamopetalous calyx or co- 

 rolla. 



Lobed, having divisions, especially 

 rounded ones. 



Lodicule, one of the very minute 

 scales immediately beneath each 

 flower in a grass spikelet. 



Naturalized, term applied to plants 

 not natives of a region but thor- 

 oughly established there in a 

 wild condition. 



Nerved, having simple or un- 

 branched veins or slender ribs. 



Ob- (in composition), signifies in- 

 versely; as, obcordate, inversely 

 heart-shaped. 



Odd-pinnate, pinnate with a sin- 

 gle leaflet at the end of the 

 midrib. 



