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GLOSSARY. lil 
ARCUATUS, curved, so as to represent the are of a circle. 
APPRESSED, Or ADPRESSED, placed close upon something else, as hairs 
when close pressed to the surface of the plants. 
APPROXIMATED, near together. 
ARBORESCENT, having a tendency to become a tree. 
ARILLUS, a process of the placenta, adhering to the seed, and sometimes 
enyeloping it. 
ARisTatus, awned, the continuation of the mid-rib forming a point of 
various length. 
ARTICULATUS, jointed, the place where one thing readily separates from 
another, or having the appearance of being united. 
ARROW-HEADED, (sagittatus), pointed, with two spreading enlarged acute 
lobes at the base, like the head of an arrow. 
ASCENDING, (ascendens), anything having an oblique base, but above 
pointed upwards. 
Asci, tubes in which the sporules of cryptogamic plants are contained when 
in the nucleus. 
AspER, rough, covered with hard short rigid points. 
AssURGENS, the same as ascending. 
ATTENUATUS, tapering, gradually diminishing in breadth. 
AURICULATUS, eared, having lobes at the base. 
AWL-SHAPED, (subulatus), very narrow, tapering to a very fine point, from a 
broad base. 
Awn, (arista), beard, the continuation of the mid-rib, chiefly applied to the 
bristle of the glumes of grasses. 
AXE-SHAPED, (dolabriformis). 
Axit, the point where the base of the upper side of the leaf joins the stem. 
AXILLARY, anything arising from the axil of the leaf. 
Axis, a line passing directly through the centre of anything. 
AXIS ASCENDING, that part of the plant ascending from the point or axis 
when it begins to depart from the descending axis. 
AXIS DESCENDING, that part of the plant which descends from the point or 
axis when the rest of the plant takes an ascending direction. 
B. 
Bacca, berry, a many celled, many seeded, inferior indehiscent pulpy fruit, 
the seeds at maturity becoming loose, and scattered in the 
substance of a pulp, as is seen in a Gooseberry. 
Baccatus, berried, having a juicy succulent texture. 
Barpatus, (bearded), tufts of long hairs. 
Bares, when hairs are forked at the apex with both the limbs hooked they 
are called barbs. 
Bark, (cortex), is the external coating of the stem of Exogenous plants 
forming a kind of sheath to the wood, and from which it is 
readily separable at certain seasons of the year. 
BEAKED, rostratus, terminating gradually in a hard, long straight point. 
BEaRrD. See Awn. 
BEARDED, (barbatus), tufts of long weak hairs growing from the surface, 
crowded or solitary. 
