xxviii Glossary 



INFLORESCENCE: the mode of arrangement of flowers 



on the stem; the flower-cluster. 

 INTERNODE : the portion of the stem between the places 



where the leaves arise. 

 INVOLUCRE: a whorl of small leaves at the base of a 



flower or flower-cluster. 



KEEL: the lower petals of the peculiar corolla of the 

 pea, etc., which are united in the form of the keel 

 of a boat. 



LACINIATE: with deep, triangular, narrow lobes. 

 LANATE: woolly. 



LANCEOLATE : narrow and tapering at each end. 

 LATERAL: pertaining to the side. 



LEAFLET: one of the divisions of the blade of a com- 

 pound leaf. 



LINEAR: narrow and flat with the margins parallel. 

 LYRATE: lyre-shaped. 



MONOECIOUS: having the separate staminate and pis- 

 tillate flowers on the same plant. 

 MUCRONATE: with a short, abrupt point. 

 NODE : the point of the stem from which one or more 



leaves arise. 

 OBLANCEOLATE: lance-shaped with the base tapering 



downwards. 

 OBTUSE: blunt. 

 ORBICULAR: circular. 



OVATE: egg-shaped (applied to flat bodies). 

 OVOID: egg-shaped (applied to solids). 

 PALMATE: (compound leaf) with the divisions so 

 arranged that they radiate from the petiole like 

 the fingers- of the hand. 

 PANICLE: a branched, flower-cluster with the older 



flowers outermost. 



PANICULATE: with much branched open flower 

 clusters. 



