GLOSSARY 



BOTANICAL TERMS, 



Note. — The figures in the American Medical Botany , by the author, 

 are occasionally referred to for farther illustration of the terms. 



Abnormal. Departing from the usual structure. 



Abortive. Producing no fruit. 



Abrupt. Terminating suddenly, as if cut off; as in the root of 



Sanguinaria Canadensis. Med. Bot. PI. 7. 

 Abruptly pinnate. Pinnate with even pairs only. Wanting the 



odd or terminal leafet. 

 Accumbent cotyledons. Having the radicle lying along the cleft 



between them. 

 Acerose. Stiff, linear and sharp, as in the leaves of the Pines. 

 Achenium. A one seeded fruit with a permanent, indehiscent 



shell. 

 Acicular. Needle shaped. 

 Acinaciform. Shaped like a scimetar. Linear, crooked and 



sharp edged. 

 Acinus. One of the protuberances which make up a compound 



berry, as in Rubus villosus. Med. Bot. PI. 38. 

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