il GLOSSARY. 
AcuUTE ANGULAR, having sharp angles, as stems of many carices. 
Apnate, adhering to a thing, when the filament is attached to the back of 
the anther, it is said to be adnate. 
ADVENTITIOUS BUDS, buds developed in any other part of the stem, than the 
ordinary one in the axis of the leaf. 
AEQUILATERUS, equal sided. 
JERUGINOUS, a deep green, with a mixture of blue, verdigris. 
AR stIvaTIoNn, (@stiva, summer quarters), the manner in which the leaves or 
buds lie folded together before opening. 
AKENIUM, or ACHENIUM, (a, not, X%4yW, to open), a nut. 
AGGREGATUS, clustered, collected in roundish or globose parcels, as the 
flowers of Cuscuta. 
ALm, wings, the two lateral petals of leguminous flowers. 
Axatus, winged, a thin broad margin. 
ALBUMEN, a substance interposed between the testa or covering of the seed 
and the embryo; it varies in degrees of hardness from fleshy 
to bony, or even stony, and sometimes is entirely wanting. 
ALBURNUM, the colourless last formed layer of wood interposed between the 
old formed wood and the bark. 
ALTERNATE, when leaves, &c., are so dispersed upon the stem that no two 
arise from precisely the same horizontal plane. 
ALVEOLATUS, honey-combed, excavated in the manner of the cells of honey- 
comb. 
AMENTUM, acatkin, flowers, without calyx or corolla, but sessile in the axis 
of a bract, crowdec into a spike, and the whole inflorescence 
falling away together. 
AMPLEXICAUL, ‘(amplexus embracing, caulis stem), leaves clasping or em- 
bracing the stem with their bases. 
Amytacrous, having the property of starch. 
ANASTOMOSING, the union of the veins of leaves at the points, where they 
come in contact with each other. 
ANGULAR, projecting longitudinal angles, obtuse angled when the angles are 
rounded, acute angled when the angles are sharp. 
ANNUAL, (annus, a year), plants which continue only one year. 
ANNULATUS, ringed, surrounded by elevated or depressed bands. 
AntueEr, («9neos, flowery), the essential part of the stamen, usually fixed 
upon a filament, and consists generally of two lobes or cells, 
separated or united, containing the pollen, which, when ripe, 
escapes through a fissure, closed by valves or by pores usually 
at the apex. 
AprraLous, (@, without T:T@Aoy, a petal), flowers without corolla, 
ApeEx, the summit, usually applied to anything terminating in a point. 
Apocanpous, (70, apart, xweros, fruit), when the carpels are quite simple, 
and not united. 
Aporecta, (ar0-9nxn, storehouse, repository), shield-like cases, or cases 
of various forms, in which the reproductive organs of crypto- 
gamic plants are contained. 
AracHNo1p, when hairs are very long, and loosely entangled, resembling 
cobweb. 
ARBOR, a tree. 
