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GLOSSARY. 



Depressed-globose; globular, with the base 



and apex flatted. 

 J)i, in composition, two. 

 Diddelphous: having the filaments unite jl 



in 2 parcels, usually 9 and 1, with a 



papilionaceous corolla 

 Didndrous; having 2 stamens. 

 Diaphanous ; transparent ; permitting light 



to pass through. 

 Dichotomal flower. Situated in the fork 



of a dichotomous stem or branch. 

 Dickolonious; forked ; regularly divided 



and subdivided, in two equal branches. 

 Diclinous; having the stamens and pistils 



in distinct flowers, whether on the same 



or different plants. 

 Dicotyledonous plants. Where the em 



bryo has 2 lobes, or cotyledons. 

 Didymous; twin ; growing in pairs and 



more or less united. 

 Didynamoiis; having 2 long and 2 shorter 



stamens, mostly in a bilabiate, ringent, or 



personate corolla. 

 Diffuse; spreading widely in a loose irreg 



ular manner. 

 Digitate leaf. Where a simple petiole 



connects several distinct leaflets, Jinger- 



like, at its summit, as in the Horse 



Chestnut. 

 Digynous; having 2 pistils, or 2 distinct 



stigmas. 



Dilated; made wider ; stretched or ex- 

 panded. 

 Dimerous; composed of two parts, as a 



dimerous calyx or corolla, when there are 



2 sepals or petals. 

 Dimidiate; halved, as if one side, or half 



had been cut off. 



Dingy; of a dull, soiled, smoky, or leaden- 

 brown color. 

 Dixcious ; or Dio'icous, having staminate 



and pistillate flowers on distinct plants. 

 Dixciously, or Dioicousli/ polygamous; 



having perfect and imperfect flowers on 



different plants. 

 Dipetalous; having 2 petals. 

 Discoid flower, or head. A disk of com- 

 pound flowers, without ray-florets. 

 Disepaluus; having 2 sepals. 

 Disk. The surface of the leaf; also the 



face, or central part, of a head of com- 

 pound flowers. 



Dissected; cut into segments, or lobes. 

 Dissepiment. The partition between the 



cells of seed-vessels. 

 Distant; having a larger intervening space 



than usual. 

 D'tftichous; two-rowed; bearing leaves, 



flowers, &c. in 2 opposite rows. 

 Distinct; separate ; not connected with 



each other, nor with any contiguous 



organ. 

 Divaricate branches. Spreading so as to 



form more than a right angle with the 



stem above. 

 Divergent; spreading widely ; making a 



right-angle, or nearly so, with the stem. 



Divided; separated, or cleft to the base, 



or to the midrib, if a leaf. 

 Dorsal; belonging to, or growing on, the 



back. 

 Dorsal suture. The line or seam on the 



lack of a carpel, or folded leaf, being at 



the place of the midrib ; the opposite of 



ventral suture, which see. 

 Dot-sally compressed ; flatted on the back. 

 Dots. Minute tubercles, or specks. 

 Dotted; covered with dots, specks, or mi- 



nute and slightly elevated points. 

 Dmcny; clothed with soft fine hairs. 

 Drooping; inclining downwards, more than 



nodding. 

 Drupaceous; drupe-like, of a structure 



resembling a drupe, or what is usually 



called stone-fruit. 

 Drupe. A fleshy, succulent, or spongy 



pericarp, without valves, containing" a 



1 or '2 seeded nut, or stone. 

 Drupel. A little drupe : a constituent por- 



tion of a compound berry, such as that 



E, or Ex; in composition ; destitute of; not 



furnished with. 



Ebrdcteate ; destitute of bracts. 

 Embracteolate; destitute of bractlets. 

 Ecaudate; destitute of a cfiuda, or tail. 

 Ech'inate; hedgehog-like; covered with 



prickles. 

 Elaters. Minute, club-shaped filaments, 



which are coiled round the spores of cer- 



tain cryptogamous plants, and by un- 



rolling assist in dispersing those spores. 

 Elliptic, or elliptical; oval; longer than 



wide, with the two ends narrowing 



equally. 

 Elongated; exceeding the usual or average 



length. 

 E longating; becoming gradually and final- 



ly elongated. 

 Emarginate; having a notch or sinus at the 



end. 

 Embryo. The young plant in the rudi 



mentary state, as it exists in the seed. 

 Emersed; raised out of water. 

 Endocarp. That membranous or bony 



portion of the pericarp which lines the 



cavity, or forms the cells for the seeds 



(ex. gr. the stone, or hard shell, in a 



Drupe). 

 Endogenous plants. Those which have a 



single cotyledon, and grow by central 



deposites of new matter, distending or 



pugning the older deposites outwards. 

 Endogens. Inside-growers; plants which 



increcise by central or internal deposites 



of new matter. See Endogenous plants. 

 Entiedndrous; having 9 stamens. 

 En&iform; sword-shaped ; two-edged and 



tapering from base to apex. 

 Entire; having a continuous even margin ; 



without incision, notch, or tooth. 

 Envelope. An integument, or covering. 

 Ephemeral; cliurual ; enduring one day 



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