202 Flora of the Palouse Region 



GLOSSARY. 



Adnate. United, especially when different organs are grown together. 



Alveolate. Resembling honey-comb. 



Anatropous. Said of an inverted ovule or seed with the hilum on one side. 



Androgynous. Having both staminate and pistillate flowers. 



Annulus. A ring, especially the ring of thickened cells on a fern sporangium. 



Awn. A bristle-like terminal or dorsal appendage. 



Barbellate. Minutely barbed. 



Bifid. Two-cleft. 



Bract. A small reduced leaf of the inflorescence. 



Caespitose. Densely tufted. 



Canescent. Hoary with a grayish pubescence. 



Callus. See page 14. 



Capillary. Hair-like. 



Caryopsis. A grain: see page 15. 



Catiline. Pertaining to the stem: on the stem. 



Cernuous. Slightly nodding. 



Ciliate. Margined with hairs. 



Circumscissile. Dehiscing by the falling off of the lid-like top. 



Clavate. Club-shaped. 



Cleistogamous. Said of self-fertilized flowers which never open. 



Coriaceous. Leatherv. 



Cortn. A solid bulb. 



Culm. See page 14. 



Cuneatc. Wedge-shaped. 



Decurrent. Said of leaves whose base runs down the stem below the point 

 of insertion. 



Dehiscence. The regular opening of the capsule or anther at maturity. 



Denticulate. Minutely dentate. 



Diadelphous. Said of stamens when united in two groups. 



Diandrous. With two stamens. 



Didynamous. With two long and two short stamens. 



Dioecious. With staminate and pistillate flowers on different plants. 



Discoid. Without ray-flowers. 



Dissected. Deeply cut into many segments. 



Divaricate. Widety divergent nearly at right angles. 



Divergent. Receding from each other. 



Epigynous. Upon the top of the ovary. 



Equitant. Astride, as when leaves are folded over each other in two ranks, 



Erose. Irregularly toothed, as if bitten out. 



Falcate. Sickle-shaped, 



