130 GLOSSARY. 



Indigenous. — Belonging to a place. Thus, indigenous to England, is 

 belonging to England. 



Inferior. — Below. Thus, inferior base is the lowest base. 



Mucronate. — Abruptly pointed by a sharp, stiff, spinous point. 



Normal. — Typical or ordinary form. Thus, normal form does not 

 deviate from the ordinary form. 



Olsolete. — Disused. 



Orhicular. — Circular, or round. 



Ovate-falcate. — Of a curved, oval, or egg-shaped form. 



Paleaceous. — Chaffy. Thus, a paleaceous rachis is when the rachis is 

 very scaly. 



Peltate. — Fixed to the stalk by the centre, or by some point ivithin 

 the margin, i. e., not at the edge. The attachment of the staUi 

 to the leaf of the Tropmolum is a familiar illustration. 



Petiolate. — Eurnished with a petiole or stalk. 



Petiolulate. — When the leaflets are stalked. 



Persistent. — Eemaining beyond the ordinary period. 



Repand. — Having an uneven slightly wavy margin. 



Semi-erect. — Partly erect. 



Sinuately-pinnatifid. — Unevenly pinnatifid, alternately with deep concav- 

 ities and convexities. 



Sub -falcate. — The word sub means somewhat, or a near approach to 

 the term to which it is appended. Thus, sub-falcate is scarcely 

 curved, or curved in a slight degree. 



Sub-marginal. — Almost marginal. 



Sub-rTiomboidal. — Almost rhomboid. 



Squamulous. — Covered with small scales. 



Superior base. — Upper base. 



Triangularly -elongate. — A lengtliened triangular form. 



Tri-quadrvpinnate. — Three times quadripinnate. 



Tomentum. — Short closely-matted hairs, or woolly pubescence. 



Truncate- dimidiate. — Imperfectly truncate. 



Trape%io-oUong. — A lengthened trapezoidal form. 



Umbilicate.—'K^iYm^ a depression in the centre. Also with an eleva- 

 tion in the centre. Known as a boss. 



Undulated. —Wavy. 



