APPENDIX* 



ON TECHNICAL TERMS 



PLANT. 



I. Arboreous or arborescent plant = a tree. Fruticose or frutescent plant 

 = a shrub. Suffruticose or snffrutesoent plant = an under -shrub, a sub- 

 shrub — i.e. a plant having deciduous herbaceous upper parts and a perennial 

 woody base. Bush = a low much-branched shrub. Terrestrial = growing 

 on land. Aquatic = growing in water. Parasite=a plant growing attached 

 to, and deriving food from, another living plant or a living animal. Epiphyte 

 = a plant living attached to another plant, but deriving no food from the 

 latter. SapropIiyte=a plant feeding upon decaying animal- or vegetable- 

 remains. 



ROOT. 



II. Root-flbrea = the slender elongated portions of roots. Tap-root = a 

 stout vertically-descending main root, with or without small branches. A 

 root is fibrous when it is devoid of a tap-root and consists of a number 

 of long fibres. A root is tuberous when it is thickened to form short 

 swollen masses termed root - tubers. Fusiform = spindle - shaped. 

 Spongiole = the root-tip. Pileorbiza = root-cap. Coleorhiza = an addi- 

 tional sheath encasing the root and root-cap of a grass-embryo in the 

 seed. Endorhizal= having the root of the embryo encased in an additional 

 sheath. ExorMzal =not having the root of the embryo encased in an 

 additional sheath. 



STEM. 



III. Tigellum = the main stem of the embryo in a seed ; sometimes is 

 used as a synonym of the word plumule, which denotes the shoot of the 

 embryo in the seed. 



IV. Adjectives denoting the direction of growth of stems which are 

 above ground. — Erect = upright. Flexuous = zig-zag. Procumbent or 

 prostrate = trailing along the ground. Diffuse = procumbent and copiously, 



* This Appendix is intended merely for use as a Dictionary in case of necessity ; on no 

 account should it he studied : for it contains not only many terms which are useless or 

 obsolete, but also some which are actually incorrect or misleading. 



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