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GLOSSARY 



Baccate. Berry-like ; pulpy throughout. 

 Barbed. Furnished with rigid points or short 



bristles, usually reflexed like the barb of a fish- 

 hook. 



Barbellate. Finely barbed. 

 Barbulate. Finely bearded. 

 Basifixed. Attached by the base. 

 Bast. The fibrous portion of the inner bark. 

 Beaked. Ending in a prolonged tip. 

 Bearded. Bearing a long awn, or furnished with 



long or stiff hairs. 

 Berry. A fruit, the whole pericarp of which is 



fleshy or pulpy. 

 Bi- or Bis-. A Latin prefix signifying two, 



twice, or doubly. 

 Bidentate. Having two teeth. 

 Biennial. Of two years' duration. 

 Bifid. Two-cleft. 

 Bilabiate. Two-lipped. 

 Bilocular. Two-celled. 

 Bisexual. Having both stamens and pistils. 

 Bivalvular. With two valves. 

 Blade. The expanded portion of a leaf, etc. 

 Bract. A more or less modified leaf subtending 



a flower or belonging to an inflorescence, or 



sometimes cauline. 



Bra deal. Of or pertaining to the bracts. 

 Bracteate. Having bracts. 

 Bracteolate. Having bractlets. 

 Bracteole. Bractlet. 

 Bracteose. With numerous or conspicuous 



bracts. 

 Bractlet. A secondary bract, as one upon the 



pedicel of a flower. 

 Bud. The rudimentary state of a stem or 



branch ; an unexpanded flower. 

 Bulb. A subterranean leaf-bud with fleshy scales 



or coats. 



Bulbiferous. Bearing bulbs. 

 Bulblet. A small bulb, especially one borne 



upon the stem. 



Bulbous. Having the character of a bulb. 

 Bullate. Blistered or puckered. 

 Bursicle. A pouch-like receptacle. 



Caducous. Falling off very early. 



Caespitose, See Cespitose. 



Calcarate. Produced into or having a spur. 



Callosity. A hardened thickening. 



Callus. A hard protuberance or callosity ; in the 



Grasses the tough often hairy swelling at the 



base or insertion of the lemma or palet. 

 Calyculate. Having bracts around the calyx or 



involucre imitating an outer calyx. 

 Calyx. The outer perianth of the flower. 

 Campanulate. Bell-shaped ; cup-shaped with a 



broad base. 

 Campylotropous (ovule or seed). So curved as 



to bring the apex and base nearly together. 

 Canaliculate. Longitudinally channeled. 

 Canescent. Hoary with gray pubescence. 

 Capillary. Hair-like. 

 Capitate. Shaped like a head ; collected Into a 



head or dense cluster. 

 Capsitlar. Belonging to or of the nature of a 



capsule. 



Capsule. A dry dehiscent fruit composed oi 

 more than one carpel. 



Carinal. On or having relation to a ridge or keel. 



Carinate. Having a keel or projecting longi- 

 tudinal medial line on the lower surface. 



Carpel. A simple pistil, or one member of a 

 compound pistil. 



Carpophore. The slender prolongation of the 

 floral axis which in the Umbelliferae supports 

 the pendulous ripe carpels. 



Caruncle. An excrescence or appendage at or 

 about the hilum of a seed. 



Carunculate. Having a caruncle. 



Caryopsis. A grain, as of Grasses ; a seed-liKi- 

 fruit with a thin pericarp adnate to the con- 

 tained seed. 



Castaneous. Of a chestnut-color ; dark brown 



Catkin. An ament. 



Caudate. Having a slender tail-like appendage 



Caudex. The persistent base of an otherwise 

 annual herbaceous stern. 



Caudicle. The thread-like or strap-shaped stali 

 of a pollinium. 



Caulescent. Having a manifest stem above 

 ground. 



Cauline. Belonging to the stem. 



Cell. One of the minute vesicles, of very various 

 forms, of which plants are formed. Any struc- 

 ture containing a cavity, as the cells of an 

 anther, ovary, etc. 



Cellular (tissue). Composed of short transpar- 

 ent thin-walled cells, in distinction from fibrous 

 or vascular. 



Centrum. The central portion ; here used spe- 

 cifically for the large central air-space in hollow 

 stems such as those of Equisetum. 



Cespitose (or Caespitose). Growing in tufts: 

 forming mats or turf. 



Chaff. A small thin scale or bract, becoming 

 dry and membranous. 



Chaffy. Having or resembling chaff. 



Channeled. Deeply grooved longitudinally, like 

 a gutter. 



Chartaceous. Having the texture of writing- 

 paper. 



Chlorophyll. The green coloring-matter within 

 the cells of plants. 



Chlorophyllose. Containing chlorophyll. 



Ciliate. Marginally fringed with hairs. 



Ciliolate. Minutely ciliate. 



Cinereous. Ash-color. 



Circinate. Coiled from the top downward, as 

 the young frond of a fern. 



Circumscissile. Dehiscing by a regular trans- 

 verse circular line of division. 



Clavate. Club-shaped; gradually thickened 

 upward. 



Cleistogamous. Fertilized in the bud, without 

 the opening of the flower. 



Coalescence. The union of parts or organs oi 

 the same kind. 



Coccus (pi. Cocci'). One of the parts into whicl* 

 a lobed fruit with 1-seeded cells splits. 



Cochleate. Spiral, like a snail-shell. 



Cohesion. The union of one organ with ai 

 other of like nature. 



