ANALYTICAL ARRANGEMENT OF BOTANICAL TERMS. 7 
Surface. — (a.) WiTHouT Harrs. — Glabrous, smooth. 
(b.) Sort Hairs. — Pilous, few, short; hirsute, few, long; 
pubéscent, dense, short; villous, dense, long; sericeous, 
silky; /aniiginous, woolly; toméntous, matted like felt; 
fibccous, fleecy tufts. 
(c.) StirF Hatrs. — Scabrous, minute, hard points; hispid, 
? few, short points ; séous, bristly ; spizous, having spines. 
Color. — Glaucous, covered with whitish powder. 
Canéscent, grayish-white with fine pubescence. 
Incénous, hoary-white. 
Puncetate, haying transparent dots. 
f{jaline, nearly transparent. 
Texture. — Succulent, fleshy ; coriaceous, leather-like; scari- 
ous, dry; rtigons, wrinkled. 
Phyllotaxis, arrangement on the stem. er 
opposite, cs ; whorled (verticillate); radical, ui near 
the ground; caudine, on the stem; rosulate, GRY. clus- 
tered ; fasciculate, in bundles. 
Vernation, arrangement in the bud. 
Induplicate, folded crosswise (Tulip-tree). 
Conduplicatz, folded along midrib (Oak). 
Plicate, ey folded like a fan (Red-current), 
Circinate, e colled lengthwise (Fern). 
Concvolute,(® rolled edgewise (Cherry). 
Lnvolute, @ 9 both edges relled inward (Apple). 
Revolute, GWe) both edges rolled outward (Willow). 
Equitant, py astraddle (Iris). 
Obvoliute, — half equitant (Jerusalem Sage). 
Triquétrous, WT triangular equitant (Sedges), 
Duration. — Fugacious, falling very early. 
Deciduous, falling at the close of the season. 
Persistent, remaining through the winter. 
INFLORESCENCE. 
Parts. — Power, ike the blossom. 
Peduncle, the stem of a solitary flower or the main 
stem of a flower-cluster. 
Soaps, sya peduncle that grows from the ground. 
Pedicel, IS y ; p, the stem of each flower of a flower-cluster. 
B 
Bracts, 6, small floral leaves. 
Involucre, a cluster of bracts. 
Kinds’— (1.) Soritary, single, alone. 
Terminal, at the summit of the stem. 
Axillary, 2 yi in the axils of the leaves. 
(2.) CLUSTERED, several flowers collected in a bunch. 
(a.) INDEFINITE or INDETERMINATE, flowering from axil- 
lary buds. ‘ Inflorescence centripetal. 
a 
Racéeme, flowers arranged 
along the axis; pedicels about 
equal in length (Currant). 
Y 
ot 
except that the lower pedicels are 
elongated, making the top flat 
(Hawthorn), 
Umbel, 
cept that the pedicels branch from 
about the same point (Milkweed). 
yA 2 
Panice, $Me compound raceme 
(Blue-grass). 
Thyrsus, a compact panicle (Lilac). 
: 
Spike, we same as raceme with 
flowers sessile (Mullein). 
Cérymth, same as raceme, 
FLOWERS PEDICELLATE-4 
same as, ccrymb, ex- 
Spadix, |} a fleshy spike, generally 
enveloped by a large bract called 
a Spathe, (Calla Lily). 
Ament or cattin, ZY a slender 
pendent spike, with scaly bracts 
(Birch). 
Head or Capitulum, e 
FLOWERS SESSILE..... 4 
a shortened 
spike, reducéd to a globular form 
(Clover}. 
(b.) DEFINITE or DETERMINATE, flowers all terminal. 
Inflorescence centrifugal. 
Cyme, T MW ftat-topped or rounded inflorescence (Elder). 
Fascicle, a compact cyme (Sweet-William). 
Glomerule, a cyme condensed into a head (Mint). 
Verticillaster, #s<Z. two opposite glomerules joined 
(Motherwort). 
Scorpioid, tea Na one-sided and coiled cyme (Forget-me- 
not). 
