GLOSSARY 



The following list of scientific names, with definitions, embraces 

 all those In more common use. The definitions are not all literal but 

 the meaning as applied to plants. 



A, at the beginning of words of Greek derivation, commonly signi- 

 fies a negative : as aptera = wingless ; from a, without, and ptera, wing ; 

 acaulis, a, without, caulls, stem=stemless. 



