426 GLOSSARY. 



Acotylcdonous. Having no cotyledons or seed lobes ; as ferns. 

 Aculeate. Prickly. 



Aculcus. A prickle, growing to the bark, not to the wood. 

 Acuminate. Ending in a long, produced, sharp point. More than 



acute ; as in the leaves of Gillenia trifoliala. Med. Bot. 



PI. 41. 

 Acute. Ending in a sharp point. Less than acuminate; as in 



the leaves oi Phytolacca decandria. Med. Bot. PI. 3. 

 Adnate. Growing to. Affixed laterally. 



Estivation. The mode in which the parts of the calyx and co- 

 rolla are arranged in the flower bud. 

 Agamous plants. Same as the Cryptogamous. 

 Agglo7r.erated. Bunched. Crowded together. 

 Agg7-egatc. Standing together, many on the same receptacle, 



but not compound. 

 Aigrette. The downy or feathery appendage of certain seeds. 



Same as Pappus. 

 Alated. See Winged. 

 Albumen. A tough, hard or fleshy substance which forms the 



bulk of certain monocotyledonous seeds. 

 Albuminous. Partaking the nature of albumen. 

 Alburnum. The external, or sap wood. 

 AlgcB. An order of the class Cryptogamia, containing the sea 



weeds,. &c. 

 Alternate. Placed alternately on opposite sides of the stem. 

 Alveolate. With cells like those of a honey comb. 

 Amcnt, or Catkin. A collection of small scales, serving for ca- 

 lyxes, on the side of a slender stalk ; as in Juglans cinerea. 



Med. Bot. Ph 32. 

 Amphisarca. A superior, indehiscent fruit, which is many celled 



and many seeded, hard externally and pulpy within. 

 Amplexicaul. See Clasping. 

 Ancipilal. Two edged. 

 Androgynous. Having barren and fertile flowers on the same 



spike, or the same plant, but no perfect ones. 

 Anisaln. Having the odor of anise. 

 Annual. Living but one year, during which it produces flowers 



and seed. 

 Anther. That part of a stamen which contains the pollen. 



