GLOSSARY, 
Pre rVONARY “OPV W OR Dis: 
USED IN THE DESCRIPTION OF PLANTS; TO MANY OF WHICH 
IS ADDED THE DERIVATION, IN ORDER TO ASSIST THE 
STUDENT TO REMEMBER THEIR MEANING. 
A. 
A. in composition, signifies without, as APHYLLUs, without leaves; ACAULIS, 
without stem. 
ABBREVIATE, (abbreviare, to shorten). 
ABORTION, (ab, from ortus, birth), an imperfect developement or absence of 
any given organ, in the symmetry of the flower, capsule, &c. 
ABNORMAL, (ab, from norma, form), any departure from the ordinary 
structure of the family or genus to which the plant belongs. 
ABRUPTLY PINNATE, when the common leaf stalk is not terminated by 
either a leaflet or tendril. 
AcaULis, (a without caulis stem), stemless, or when the stem is very 
short. 
ACCUMBENT, (accumbo, to lie down), prostrate, supine, when the radical 
lies upon the edge of the cotyledons, in the seeds of 
cruciferous plants. 
AcERosus, needle-shaped. 
ACHENIUM, a dry, hard, bony, one celled superior indehiscent fruit, as 
Lithospermum, Borago. 
AcoTytEponEs, (@, without xoTuAnday, a seed lobe). Acotyledonous 
plants, whose seeds or sporules are without seed lobes, or 
distinct axis of germination. 
AcuLEatus, prickl, furnished with prickles, as the stem of a rose. 
AcUMINaTUs, gradually tapering to a point. 
Acute, sharp pointed, terminating in a point, not tapering, nor abruptly 
pointed. 
