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Decussate, crossing at right angles. 



Dehiscent, opening, bursting. 



Dentate, toothed. 



Dichotomoiis, divided by twos, forked. 



Dioecious, a plant is so called when 

 male and female organs appear 

 separate upon different indivi- 

 duals. 



Discoid, having the form of a flat- 

 tened sphere. 



Divaricating, straggling, spreading. 



Drupe, a fleshy fruit, enclosing a 

 nut. 



Elliptical, pointed at both ends. 

 Emarginate, having a notch at the 



point. 

 Ensiform, sword-shaped. 

 Entire, without marginal teeth or 



incisions. 

 Ephemerous, short-lived. 



Falcate, bent like a sickle. 

 Farinaceous, mealy. 

 Fascicled, standing in bundles. 

 Fastigiate, having a pyramidal 



shape, from the branches being 



parallel and erect. 

 Filiform, thread-like, slender. 

 Flexuous, waving, bent in a zig-zag 



manner. 

 Follicle, a fruit, formed by a single 



carpel, and opening by one 



suture. 

 Frond, the leaflike development of 



ferns bearing the fructification. 



Geniculate, bent like a knee ; knee- 

 jointed. 



Glabrous, smooth, bald. 



Glandulous, hedixmg glands at the tip. 



Glaucous, covered with a pale-green 

 bloom. 



Globose, round, spherical. 



Hispid, covered with long rigid 

 hairs. 



Imbricated, sQ^&We parts covermg 

 or overlapping each other like 

 tiles. 



Impari'phinate, unequally yoked . 



pinnate-leaves ending in an 



odd leaflet. 

 Incised, deeply cut down. 

 Internode, the portion of a stem 



between two nodes or leaf-buds- 

 Involucre, bracts, surrounding a 



head of flowers in a whorl. 



Leaflet, the division in a compound 



leaf. 

 Legume, a seed-pod with two valves, 



the seeds of which are fixed on 



one and the same suture, but 



alternately upon the two valves. 

 Ligula, the ray-fiowers of a capitu- 



lum in composites. 

 Linear, very narrow ; when the 



length much exceeds the 



breadth. 

 Limb, the broad part of a petal, or 



a leafiet, forming part of the 



calyx. 

 Lobed, divided into segments. 



Membranaceotis, having the appear- 

 ance and structure of a mem- 

 brane. 



Monoecious, when male and female 

 flowers are separated from each 

 other, but grow upon the same 

 individual plant. 



Mucronate, abruptly terminating in 

 a hard sharp point. 



' Nodulose, with a thickened knot. 



Oblong (oval), elliptical, obtuse at 



each end. 

 Obovate, reversely ovate. 

 Obtuse, blunt, not pointed. 

 Opposite, placed on opposite sides. 

 Orbicular, rounded, with the stalk 



attached to the centre. 

 Ovate, egg-shaped, broadest at base, 



narrowed upwards. 



Palmated, 5-lobed, resembling a 



hand. 

 Perfoliate, surrounding the stem at 



