GLOSSARY OF BOTANICAL TERMS. 



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linccate^ bcnied, having a fleshy coat or covering, 



fifi^/f/etly rcscmblmg a bag or sack. 



lidd, the round central i)art of the flower of the Stnpelia. 



Vandsy or vittoe, are tlio spares between the elevated 

 lines or ribs of the fruit of umbelliferous plants. 



Barred, crossed by a paler colour in spaces resembling 

 bars. 



Bcah, any thing which resembles the beak of a bird; 

 hard short points. 



Bearded, liaving long hair like a beard. 



Beardhtted^ having small awns. 



BictispidatCy twice pointed. 



Bidctitate, double-toothed, or having two teeth. 



Biennial^ a plant is said to be biennial wliieli requires 

 two seasons to mature its fruit, and then dies. 



BifariouSy placed in two rows. 



Bifid, half divided in two; two cleft. 



Buflandular, doublu-glanded. 



Bihhiate, having two lips, 



BUobed^ divided into two lobes. 



Binate, growing two together. 



Bipariible, capable of being parted in two. 



Bipinnatc^ a mode of foliation; twice pinnate. 



Bipinnatifid, twice pinnatifid, a mode of foliation. 



Bisacctite, having two little sacks, bags, or pouches. 



Biscutate^ resembling two bucklers {scuta) placed side 

 by side. 



Biterntite^ divided in three twice over. 



Bi-tri-crcnate, crenate twice or thrice. 



Bi-tripinnatijid, pinnatifid twice or tlirice over. 



Bi-tn-temate, growing m threes twice or thrice over. 



Bivalved, two-valved. 



Blanching^ made white by being grown in a dark place. 



Bland, fair, beautiful. 



Blu/hty a vague term, signifying a pestilence among 

 plants caused by the attack of insects or of para- 

 sitical fungi, or by some endemical aflfection of the 

 atmosphere. 



Blistered, having the surface raised as the skin is when 

 blistered. 



Bole, trunk of a tree. 



Boroffineous, of or belonging to the natural order Bora- 

 gincje. 



Braehiate, having arms or branches usually placed 

 opposite to each other, nearly at right angles with 

 the main stem, and crossing each other alternately. 



Dractcate, furnished With braetece. 



liracteohs, little hracteic. 



Bradeoe, small leaves placed near the calyx. 



Brancfileis, small branches. 



Bristles, rigid hairs. 



Bidhiferons, bulb-bearing. 



Bidlious, having bulbs. 



BuUis,^ undergroimd buds resembling roots, and con- 

 sisting of numerous fleshy scales placed one over the 

 otlier. 



fiwrrw, covered with hooked stiff hairs, like the heads 

 of Bur or Burdock. 



Byssoiil, having the appearance of Byssi. 



Caducous, falling ofT soon. 



Casious, gray. 



CcEspitose, growing in little tufts. 



Calcarate, spurred, or spur-shaped. 



Calcareous, chalky, or growing on clialk. 



Calcei/orm, formed like a Httle slioe. 



Calli, small callosities, or rough protuberances. 



Callous, hardened. 



CalyciTie^ of or belonging to a calyx. 



Caiymlaiedy having bracteolae resembling an external 



or additional calyx. 

 Cali/ptra, literally an extinguisher: applied to the body 



which tips the theca of a moss, and the like. 

 Ca(?//)irate, liaving a covering resembling an extinguisher. 

 Calyjttrijhrmvi, shaped like a calyptra. 

 Campanulate, bell-shaped. 

 Canaliculate, channelled or furrowed. 

 Cancellate, latticed; resembling lattice-work. 

 Canescerd, hoary, approaching to white. 

 Cufnllart/, very slender; resembling a hair. 

 Capitate, growing in a head. 

 Capitidar, growing in email heads. 

 Capituli, small heads. 



Capilu/i/orm, formed like a small head. 



Carbonised, burned to a coal. 



Carina, a keel like that of a boat; also the two lower 

 petals of papilionaceous flowers. 



Carinate, keel-shaped. 



Cariopsis, a one-celled, small, indehisccnt pericarpiura 

 adhering to the seed which it contains, as the grain 

 of grasses. 



Carious, decayed. 



Carminative, medicines which promote perspiration. 



Camose, fleshy. 



Carpella, the small parts out of which compound fruit 

 are formed. 



Carpoldgy, the science which treats of the structure of 

 fruits and seeds. 



Cartilage, gristle. 



Cartilaginous, gristly. 



Cataplasm, a plaster, or more properly a poultice. 



Catarrhal, of or belonging to a cold. 



Cathartic, purgative. 



Catkin, inflorescence of the natural order Amentacese. 



Caudate, tailed, being like a tail. 



Caudex, the trunk or stem, 



Caudicula, a small membranous process on which tho 

 pollen of orchideous phmts is nxed. 



Caulescent, acquiring a stem. 



Cauiine, produced on a stem. 



Causticity, having a burning quality. 



Cautery, that which bums. 



Cellular, composed of cells. 



Centimetre is a French measure equal to 4 lines -^^ 

 or near A\ lines. 



Centuries, hundreds. 



Cephalic, medicinal to the head. 



CeraceouSf wax-like. 



Cemuous, nodding, drooping, or pendulous. 



Chaffy, bearing processes resembling chaffs. 



Chalaza, a spot on the seed, indicatmg where the ves- 

 sels of the raphe terminate. 



Channel-leaved, folded together so as to resemble a 

 channel for conducting water. 



Cliarring, blackening by fire. 



Cilia, hairs like those of the eyelash. 



Ciliary processes, like eyelash hairs. 



Ciliated, eyelash-haired. 



CilitUo-dcntate, toothed and fringed with hairs like eye- 

 lashes. 



Cinereous, ash-coloured, gray. 



Circinately, curled round like a sharp crook. 



Cirrhiferous, bearing tendrils. 



Cirrmse or Cirrlious, tendrilled. 



Clammy, viscid, sticky. 



Clathratc, latticed, divided like latticcw^ork. 



Clavatc, club-shaped. 



Clavcllose, clubbed, or having elub-like processes, 



Clavus, a name for the ergot, a disease in com. 



Claws, the taper base of a petal. 



Clinandrium, that part of the column of orchideous 

 plants in which the anther lies. 



Clymate, shaped like a Roman buckler. 



Comvebhed, covered with loose hairs, as if with a cobweb. 



CocJdeate, resembling the shell of a snail. 



Coliering, connected. 



Collapsion, the act of closing or falling together. 



Colmmlla, the axis of the fruit of mosses. 



Columnar, formed like nohimns. 



Commimded, pulverised (»t pounded. 



Comose, this term is us<:d to express a kind of inflo- 

 rescence, which is terminated by sterile braetea;. 



Compact, close, solid. 



Complicate, fohlcd together. 



CojnplicatO'carinate, folded l«gc(her bo as to fomi a sort 

 of keel. 



Co7iipound, used in botany to express Ihe union of seve- 

 ral things in one: tlnis, a compound umbel is formed 

 by several simple uml>els, a compound flower by 

 several simple flowers, &c. 



Compressed, pressed together. 



Concave, hollow. 



Concentric, points or lines at equal distances from a 

 common centre. 



Concrete, hardened or formed into one mass. 



Cone, a particuhir kind of compound fruit. 



Conferruminate, united together 60 us to be undistin- 

 gaishable- 



