2/0 EUCALYPTUS. 



Aculeolate : armed with small prickles, or slightly prickly. 



Acuminate : taper-pointed. 



Acute : merely sharp-pointed, or ending in a point less than a right- 

 angle. 



Adelphous (stamens) : joined in a fraternity (adelphia] : see monadel- 

 phous and diadelphous. 



Adherent : sticking to, or, more commonly, growing fast to another body. 



Adnate : growing fast to ; it means born adherent. The Anther is 

 adnate when fixed by its whole length to the filament or its prolonga- 

 tion, as in Tulip-tree. 



Adpressed, or appressed : brought into contract, but not united. 



Adscendent, ascendent, or ascending : rising gradually upwards. 



Adsurgent, or assurgent : same as ascending. 



Adventitous : out of the proper or usual place. 



Aventive : applied to foreign plants accidentally or sparingly sponta- 

 neous in a country, but hardly to be called naturalized. 



^Equilateral : equal sided ; opposed to oblique. 



Estivation : the arrangement of parts in a flower-bud. 



Air-cells or Air-passages : spaces in the tissue of leaves and some stems. 



Akenium, or akene. See achenium. 



Ala (plural alee] : a wing ; the side petals of a papilionaceous corolla. 



Alabastrum : a flower-bud. 



Alar : situated in the forks of a stem. 



Alate : winged, as the seeds of Trumpet-Creeper, the fruit of the Maple, 

 Elm, etc. 



Albescent : whitish, or turning white. 



Albumen of the seed ; nourishing matter stored up with the embryo, 

 but not within it. 



Albumen, a vegetable product ; a form of proteine. 



Albuminous (seeds) : furnished with albumen, as the seeds of Indian 

 corn, of Buckwheat, etc. 



Alburnum : young wood, sap-wood. 



Alpine : belonging to high mountains above the limit of forests. 



Alternate (leaves) : one after another. Petals are alternate with the 

 sepals, or stamens with the petals, when they stand over the intervals 

 between them. 



Alveolate : honey-comb-like, as the receptacle of the Cotton-Thistle. 



Ament : a catkin. Amentaceous: Catkin-like, or catkin-bearing. 



Amorpheus : shapeless ; without any definite form. 



Amphigastrium (plural amphigastria} ; a peculiar stipule-like leaf of 

 certain Liverworts. 



Amphitropous or Amphitropal ovules or seeds. 



Amplectant : embracing. Amplexicaul (leaves) : clasping the stem by 

 the base. 



