GLOSSARY. 



Denudatae, stripped naked, an order of plants in the Frag- 

 menta methodi naturalis of Linnaeus. 



Dependens folium, hanging down, leaves pointing towards 



. the ground. 



JDepressum folium, pressing down, when the sides rise high- 

 er than the disk. 



Diadelphia, two brotherhoods, the seventeenth class in the 

 sexual system. 



Diandria, two males, the second class in the sexual system. 



Dichotomus caulis, forked stalks, when the divisions come 

 by two and two. 



Dicotyledones, when the seeds have two cotyledons that are 

 the placenta of the embryo plant, and afterwards the seed 

 leaves. 



Didyma anthera, twins, when the antherae come by two's on 

 each filament. 



Didynamia, the superiority of two, the fourteenth class in the 

 sexual system. 



Difformia jfo//#, different forms, when leaves on the same 

 plant come of different forms. 



Diffusus canlisj when branches of the stalk spread different 

 ways. 



Digitatum folium, fingered, when the apex of a petiole con- 

 nects many folioles. 



Digynia, two females, the second order in each of the first 

 thirteen classes, except the ninth. 



Dimidiatum, halved. 



Dioecia, the twenty-second class in the sexual system. 



Dipetala corolla, flowers consisting of two petals, as in Cir- 

 czea, and Commelina. 



Diphyllus calyx, a calyx consisting of two leaves, as in the 

 Papaver and Fumaria. 



Discoideae, plants of the Syngenesious class, wanting the flo- 

 rets in the radius. 



Discus, a disk, the middle part of a radiate compound flower. 



Disperma, plants producing their seeds by two's, as in the 

 Umbellatie. 



Dissecrum folium-, leaves cut into laciniae, or divisions. 



Disseminatio, the means by which the fruit when ripe is 

 scattered. 



Dissepimentum, partitions of the fruit, which divide the pe- 

 ricarpium into cells. 



Dissiliens siliqua > pods that burst with elasticity. 



Distuns verticitlus, when the whorles of flowers, in verticil- 

 late plants, stand at a great distance from one another. 

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