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DKmONARY OF BOTANICAL TERMS. 



(COMBINED WITH AN INDEX.) 



AcnuleHrmt, witliont an appariMit stem — 



tlio U-\w loaf and llowur-boaring stem 



biiing short or subtorrani'an. 

 Achenhua (or akeno), a dry 1-st'«deil fruit, 



Fig. H3, p. 41. 

 yl( 'ciddi; noodlt.'-sliapod. 

 Acrof/c.noiis, growing only from th(> sum- 

 mit, as the stems of foriis and mosses. 

 Aculeate, armed witli prickles. 

 Acuminate, tapor-i)ointed. 

 Aciite, sharp-jiointed. 

 Adnate (anther), attached by one face to 



tlie side of tlie filament, \). 'X\. 

 Adccntitwus roots, p. G. 

 Adventitimts roots of parasitic phiiits, Fig. 



1:5, p. 7. 

 Air-j)lants, those nourished by aerial roots, 



p. 9. 

 Akene (or achenium\ a dry 1-seeded fruit. 



Fig. 83, p. 41. 

 Alatc, winged. 

 Albumen^ p. 4.5. 

 Alburnum, sap-wood, p. 15. 

 Alternate, one after another, as alternate 



leaves. 

 Alreolatc, like honoyeomb. 

 Andrn'cium, a collective name for the 



stamens. 

 Annual, a plant which germinates from 



the seed, produces flowers and fruit, and 



dies the same season, p. 9. 

 Annual rings (,o{ wood). Fig. 19, p. 14. 



I Anther, tlio essential part of tlie stam.on, 

 j Figs. 59, 7:5, 74, p. M. 



AjH'tidoHx, without a corolla, p. ',Vi. 

 j Ajihyllous, destitute of leaves. 

 1 Appressed, in close contact but not united. 



Arh(ireotts{m arborescent), tree-like. 



AriUiis (or aril), a fleshy, false coating to 

 the seed, p. 4r». 



Aristate, armed with a hrisllo-like jioint. 



Artioddtion, the joint at which a part se])a- 

 rates, as the petiole from the stem, p. 

 20. 



Ascending 8t£m, one which arises obliquely, 

 p. 10. 



Assnrgent, ascending. 



Aim, a bristle-like appendage. 



A.ril, the angle on the upper side between 

 the leaf and stem. 



Axillary hud, a bud placed in the axil of a 

 leaf. Axillary buds often remain dor- 

 mant indeliniti^ly ; when they begin to 

 grow they become terminal buds, i.e., 

 buds terminating growing branches, p. 

 10. 



Baccate, like a berry. 

 Barbate, bearded. 

 Bark, p. 15. 



Bast-cells, the long wood-cells of bark, p. 15. 

 Beaked, ending in a beak or narrow tip. 

 Bean, its structure and gerrainatiou, Figfl. 

 1-5, p. a. 



