GLOSSARY. 1X 
Dernratus, toothed, having short teeth, with concave edges; when these 
teeth are themselves toothed it is said to be duplicato-dentate , 
or doubly toothed. 
DEnvupDATUs, naked, free from hairiness, down, &c. 
Derenvens, hanging down, having a downward direction. 
DxEpressEeD (depressus), growing horizontally. 
Drapenpuous (04s, twice; xderoGos, a brother) ; when filaments are com- 
prised in two sets. 
DicHoTOMoUS (dixgorop0¢, divided in two, having the divisions always in 
pairs. 
DicoTyLEDONES (O15, twice ; KoTUAndwy, a seed leaf); seeds having two 
lobes. 
Drpymus (d:dujz05, dBuble), growing in pairs, or divided into equal’parts, as 
fruit of Galiums. 
DipyNnamovs, plants with four stamens, two longer than the others. 
DirrusE (diffusus), spreading widely. 
Diceitatvs, fingered leaves with five deep narrow segments, like the fingers 
of the hand. 
Diprervs, two winged. 
Discorp (discoideus), orbicular, with some perceptible thickness, parallel 
faces, and a rounded border. 
Disk, bodies mostly of a glandular nature, situated between the base of the 
stamens and the ovary, but not forming a part of either. 
DIssEPIMENT (dissepio, to separate), the partitions in ovaries that are 
formed by the united sides of cohering carpels, and which 
divide them into cells. 
DisticHus, when things are arranged in two rows the one opposite the other. 
DIVARICATING, growing in a straggling manner. 
Dorsat (dorsalis), fixed upon the back of anything. 
DovusBLy TOOTHED. See dentatus. 
Downy (pubescens), covered with very short weak dense hairs. 
Drouracrovs, fruit with an indehiscent pericarpium, fleshy externally, bony 
internally. 
DrureE (drupe, unripe olives), the same as drupaceous. 
Ducts (ductus, a pipe for water), are membranous tubes, with conical or 
rounded extremities, forming a part of the vascular tissue of 
plants; their sides are marked with transverse lines, or rings, 
or bars, and are not capable of being unrolled without break- 
ing, as the spiral vessels are. 
DUPLICATO-DENTATE. See dentate. 
DUPLICATO-SERRATE. See serrate. 
DuraMEn (¢, hardening), the heart wood, the inner layers of wood become 
harder and a darker colour from age. 
DwarrF (nanus), small, short, dense, as compared with other species of the 
same genus or family. 
E. 
ERED (auriculatus), having two small rounded lobes at the base. 
Ecutnatus, bristly, furnished with numerous rigid hairs or straight prickies- 
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