GLOSSARY OF TERMS. 



Corneous, homy. 



Coniide, homed. 



Corrugate, shrivelled, wrinkled. 



Corymb, a mode of flovvermg, jrage 73, pi. 34, fig. 1. 



Corymbose, fomied like a corymb, page 73, pi. 34, fig. 1. 



Costate, ribbed, page 70, pi. 3), fig. 8. 



Cotyledon, seed-leaves, pi. 28, fig. 1, or lobes, pi. 15, fig. 1, c. 



Crenate, notched, pi. 31, fig. 3. 



CrenuUtte, full of small notches. 



Crest, an appendage at the summit, 



Crisp, curled or much undulated at the margin, pi. 31, fig. 6. 



Cruciform, cross-sha])ed, page 12, pi. 7- fig- 3 ; pi. 16, fig. 1 <^ ; pi. 18, 



fig. 4, c. 

 Culm, the peculiar stem of grasses, pi. 27, fig. 3. 

 Cuniform, wedge-shaped, pi. 28, fig. 15. 

 Cyinbcform, boat-shaped. 



Cyme, a mode of flowering, page 74, pi. 35, fig. 2. 

 Cymose, flowering like a cyme, pi. 35, fig. 2. 



D 



Decandrous, ha\-ing 10 stamens, pi. 17. fig. 10, 



Deciduous, falling off"; see pages 11 aiid 72. 



Decumbent, lying down on the ground. 



Dccurrcnt, rmming down, page ^\, pi. 32. fig. 10, 



Decurrently pinnate, when the leaflets of a pinnate leaf run down the 



stem, fig. 9, pi. 30. 

 Decussate, when leaves alternately cross each other, pi. 31, fig. 14 

 Deflexed, bent downwards, pi. 32, fig. 5. 

 Dehiscent, spontaneously bursting. 

 Deltoid, ti'iangular, pi. 28, fig. 10. 



Dentate, toothed at the edge, incisions in the margins resembling teeth. 

 Depressed, pressed down, or flattened vertically. 

 Diandrous, having 2 stamens, pi. 17, fig. 2. 

 Diaphanous, transparent. 



Dichotomous, in pairs, or forked, page 61, pi. 26. fig. 3. 

 Didymous, two conjoined, pi. 11, fig. 3. 



Didynamious, having two long and two short stamens, pi. 18, fig. 3. 

 Diffuse, wide-spreading, scattered, pi, 35, fig. 3. 

 Digitate, fingered, page 68, pi. 30, fig. 3. 

 Dicecious, when a plant bears staminiferous flowers on one individual, 



and pistiliferous flowers on another, page 25, pi. 19, fig. 4. 

 Discoid, a flower of the class Syngesia, bearing tubular florets only. 

 Discus, disk, the central florets of a compound flower, pi. 22, fig. 2, 



form the disk. 

 Diphyllou-s, two-leaved, page 7, pi- 4, fig. 2 ; pi. 7, fig. 1 • 

 Dissepiment, uiternal partitions of a seed vessel, pi. 12, figs. 4 and 5. 

 Distichous, two-rowed, pi. 31, fi^. 15. 

 Divaricate, wide-spreadmg . 



Dodecundrous, having twelve stamens, pi. 17, fig. H. 

 Dorsal, on the back. 

 Drupe, a fruit containing a hard stone, page 19, pi. 13, fig 2. 



E. 



Echinated, covered with prickles like a hedgehog , 



Elliptical, the length greater than the breadth, and the ends rounded. 



Elliptic-lanceolate, between elliptic and lanceolate. 



Emarginate, ha\-ing a notch at the summit, pi. 29, fig. 12. 



Embracing, when a leaf clasps round the stem by its base, pi, 32, fig. 9. 



Emcrscd, standuig out of the water. 



