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Appressed : where branches are close pressed to the stem, or leaves to 



branch, etc. 

 Apterous: wingless. 



Aquatic: living or growing in water ; applied to plants, whether grow- 

 ing under water, or with all but the base raised out of it. 

 Arachnoid : cobwebby ; clothed with, or consisting of soft downy fibres. 

 Arboreous Arborescent : tree-like in size or form. 

 Archegonium (plural archegonia] : the organ in Mosses, etc., which is 



analogous to the pistil of Flowering Plants. 

 Arcuate : bent or curved like a bow. 

 Areolate : marked out into little spaces or areolce. 

 Aril-late (seeds) furnished with an 

 Aril or Arillus : a fleshy growth forming a false coat or appendage to a 



seed. 

 Aristate : awned, i. e. furnished with an arista, like the beard of 



Barley, etc 



Aristulate : diminutive of the last ; short-awned. 

 Arrow-shaped or Arrow-headed : same as sagittate. 

 Articulated: jointed; furnished with joints or articulations where it 



separates or inclines to do so. 

 Aspergilliform : shaped like the brush used to sprinkle holy wate ; as 



the stigmas of many Grasses. 

 Assurgent : same as ascending. 



Atropous or Atropal (ovules) : same as orthotropous. 

 Auticulate : furnished with auricles, or ear-like appendages. 

 Awl-shaped : sharp-pointed from a broader base. 

 Awn : the bristle or beard of Barley, Oats, etc ; or any similar bristle-like 



appendage. 



Awned : furnished with an awn or long bristle-shaped tip. 

 Axil : the angle on the upper side between a leaf and the stem. 

 Axile : belonging to the axis or occupying the axis. 

 Axillary : (buds, etc.) : occurring in an axil. 

 Axis : the central line of any body ; the organ round which others are 



attached ; the root and stem. 



Baccate : berry-like, of a pulpy nature like a berry (in Latin bacca.} 



Barbate : bearded ; bearing tufts, spots, or lines of hairs. 



Barbed: furnished with a barb or double hook; as the apex of the 

 bristle on the fruit of Echinospermum (Stickseed), etc. 



Barbellate : said of the bristles of the pappus of some Compositse 

 (species of L,iatris, etc.), when beset with short, stiff hairs, longer 

 than when denticulate, but shorter than when plumose. 



Barbellulate : diminutive of barbellate. 



Bark : the covering of a stem outside of the wood. 



