GLOSSARY; 



EXPLAINING THE 



TECHNICAL TERMS 



BOTANY: 



IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER. 



ABBREVTATUM periantluum, shortened, when the cup is 



shorter than the tube of the flower. 

 Abortiensjtfos, barren flowers, such as produce no fruit. 

 Abruptum folium pi mm him, winged leaves, ending without 



either foliole or cirrhus. 

 Acaulis, without stalk or stem. 

 Acerosum folium, chaffy leaves, when they are linear and 



abiding, as in Pinus, Abies, and Juniperus. 

 Acicularis, needle-shaped, as in Scirpus acicularis. 

 Acinaciforme, faulchion or scymitar- shaped, as in Mesembry- 



anthemum acinaciforme. 



Acini, the small berries which cohipose the fruit of a mul- 

 berry or bramble. 

 Acotyledones, plants, whose seeds have no cotyledons or 



seminal leaves. 



Aculei, prickles, fixed in the rind or surface of the bark. 

 Aculeatus canlis, a stalk or stem furnished with prickles. 

 AcLiminatum jolinm, a leaf ending in a point, as in Ai undo 



Phragmites. 

 Acutum folium, leaves terminating in an acute angle, as in 



Campanula Trachelium. 

 Adn&tum folium, the disk of the leaf pressing close to the 



stem of the plant. 



folia, the disk of the leaf pressing towards the stem, 

 u 3 Adscenden* 



