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DECURRENT: (leaves) with base prolonged below in- 

 sertion and forming a sort of wing. 

 DELTOID: broadly triangular. 

 DENTATE:' toothed, usually with teeth projecting 



outwards. 



DENTICULATE: with little, outwardly projecting teeth. 

 DIOECIOUS: having staminate and pistillate flowers 



on separate plants. 

 Disc : the central part of a head as opposed to the ray, 



e. g. t in the sun-flower. Also a fleshy expansion 



of the receptacle of the flower. 

 DRUPE: a stone-fruit. 

 DRUPELET: a small stone-fruit. 

 ELLIPTIC: with the outline of an ellipse. 

 ENTIRE : with the margin even and not toothed, lobed, 



or divided. 



EROSE: irregularly margined. 

 FIMBRIATE: fringed. 



FLOCCOSE : with loose tufts of wool-like hairs. 

 FOLIACEOUS: leaf -like. 

 FOLLICLE : a fruit of one carpel (pistil-leaf) which splits 



only by one suture. 

 FUSIFORM : spindle-shaped. 

 GALEA: a helmet-shaped body. 

 GLANDULAR: with small prominences which appear 



to have a secreting function. 



GLAUCOUS: covered with a bluish or white bloom. 

 GLOBOSE : spherical. 



INCISED: sharply and irregularly cut into. 

 INDUSIUM: the membrane covering the fruit-dots of 



ferns. 

 INFERIOR: (side of flower) the one away from the axis 



of the flower-cluster; (ovary) united with the 



calyx-tube, the other floral parts apparently 



growing from its summit. 



