GLOSSARY. 
Corymp, a flat-topped flower cluster, the 
pedicels unequal. 
CostaTE, ribbed. 
Coryiepons, the leaves of the embryo. 
CREEPING, running on the ground and 
rooting. 
CreEnaTE, the margin scolloped. 
CuNEATE, wedge-shaped. 
Cusripats, tipped with a rigid point. 
Crm, w flower cluster in which the oldest 
flowers are in the center. 
Dercrpvovts, falling off before withering; or, 
if leaves, before winter. 
DeEcLINED, turned to one side. 
DrEcumBENT, reclining on the ground, the 
end rising. 
DEFLEXED, bent downwards. 
DenIScENT Fruits, etc., open by 
DEHISCENCE, splitting as pods do. 
Dentate, toothed, the teeth pointing di- 
rectly away from the margin. 
DEPRESSED, flattened from above. 
D1apELPuovS, stamens united by the fila- 
ments in two sets. 
Dicuotomous, forking into two branches. 
DicoTyLEDENOUS, having two seed leaves. 
Dirrvuse, widely and loosely spreading. 
DiciTaTr, compound with the parts arising 
at one point. 
Diacrovs, with stamens and pistils in 
separate blossoms on different indi- 
viduals. 
DissEcTED, cut into pieces, or nearly so. 
Distinct, when parts of the same name do 
not cohere. 
DrvaRIcaTE, separating widely. 
DiverGENT, the summits inclined from each 
other. 
Drops, a stone fruit (like a cherry). 
Emsryo, the rudimentary plant in a seed. 
ENTIRE, the margin whole and even, not 
lobed or toothed. 
Erieynovs, growing on the ovary. 
Eross, irregularly notched as if gnawed. 
EXxsERTED, protruding beyond other organs. 
EXSTIPULATE, without stipules, 
Exrrorss, turned outward. 
Fascrciz, a close cyme, a bundle of leaves. 
FERTILE Flower, one having pistils. 
Finament, the stalk of an anther. 
Fiuirorm, like a thread. 
Fouraceovs, like a leaf. 
Fo.touaTe, consisting of leaflets (5-folio- 
late means with five leaflets). 
FoLLicLE, a simple pod opening down one 
side. 
Froit, the seed and all that belong to it. 
Guavcous, covered with a whitish bloom 
which rubs off, as the surface of o 
cabbage leaf, or a plum. 
GLoMERATE, clustered into a ball. 
GLoMERULE, a capitate cyme. 
Hastats, with a spreading lobe at the base 
on each side. 
Hirsvteg, clothed with coarse hairs. 
Hispip, beset with bristly hairs, 
Hoary, grayish white from a white pubes- 
cence. , 
Hypocynovus, growing under the pistil, 
free from the calyx and corolla. 
IncumBent, when the radicle lies against 
the back of one of the cotyledons, 
InFERIOR, underneath or anterior. 
Innate, borne on the apex or end. 
Inrrorsz, turned inward. 
