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INDEX AND GLOSSARY. 
Dialypetale, 258. 
Di (in composition), éwo; as in 
Diadelphons, 107. 
Diandrows, with 2 stamens. 
Dichotomous, forked, branched by two 
equal divisions. 
Didynamous, 107. 
Diffuse, spreading loosely. [lobes. 
Ingitate, finger-shaped, with narrow 
Digcious, staminate and pistillate floavers 
on different plants, asin the Willow. 
Dixcoid head, the florets all tabular, as in 
Burdock, Ironweed, 156. 
Disk flowers, 156. 
Dissected, ent into 2 parts. 
Dissepiment, a partition in a pod. 
Distinct, vot united, 77. 
Divuricate, spreading in a straggling 
manner, 
Dodecandrous, with 12 stamens. 
Dorsal, on the back, 
Double flowers, 119. 
Doubly dentate, 32. 
Downy, clothed with soft hairs. 
Drupe, 171. 
Duramen, inner wood of the trunk. 
£, or Hx (in composition), destitute of. 
Echinate, beset with prickles. 
Elliptical, 16. 
Elongated, exceeding the common length. 
Emargiuate, 84, 
Embryo, 190. 
Endogens, 258, 255. 
Enneandrous, with 9 stamens. 
Ensiform, sword-shaped, 28.—Fig. 8. 
Enture, even-edged, 29 
Ephemeral, lasting but a day. 
Lpidermis, the outer skin. 
Epigynous, standing on the ovary. 
Epiphyte plants growing on other plants. 
qually pinnate, 387. 
Equitant, 137. 
Erect stems, 224. 
Brose, jageed, as if gnawed. 
Eterio, 173. 
Exogens, 253. 
Exotic, not native, foreign. 
Fxserted, projecting out of, 
Evsiceate, dried u 
Exstipulate, without stipules. 
Jictrorse (anthers), facing outwards, 103. 
Faleate, sickle-shaped, linear and curved. 
Fascicle, 159. 
Fasciculated, 50, 
Fastigiate, having a flat or level top. 
Feather-veined, 257. 
Ferruyinous, rust-colored. 
Fertile, fruit-bearing, 109. 
Fibrils, 198. 
Fibro-tuberous, 222, 
Fibrons, 221. 
Fig, 184. 
Filament, 101. 
Filiform, thread-shaped. 
Ffimbriate, bordered with a fringe. 
Fistulous, Fistula, tubular, hollow. 
Fieruous. bent in a wavy manner. 
Florets, the flowers in a compound flow- 
er, 166. 
Floridize, 258. 
Flower-bud, 128. 
Flowering Plants, 250. 
Flowerless Plauts, 250, 
Foliaceous, having the texture of leaves. 
Follicle. 179. 
Fovtstalk, the stalk of either flower or leaf. 
Forked venation, 12. 
Forms of leaves.—Lessons 8, 4. 
Free, vot adhering, 81. 
Fringed, the same as fimbriate, 
Fruit.—Lessons 22, 28. 
Frutescent, shrubby. 
Fugacious, soon perishing. 
Funienlus, the seed-stalk. 
Funnel-shaped, 98. 
Fureate, forked. 
Fusiform, spindle-shaped. 
Galea, the arched upper lip ofa labiate 
corolla, 
Gamopetale, 258. 
Gamopetalous, 75. 
Gamosepalous, 75. 
Geminale, in pairs. 
Genus, Genera, 243. 
Germ, the ovary, 189, 
Germination, 196. 
Gibbous, swelled out, protuberant. 
Glabrous, smooth, without hairs. 
Glands, the organs of secretion, 58. 
Glandular, gland-bearing. 
Glans, 170. 
Glaucous, sea-green: pale, bluish-green, 
with a powder or bloom. 
Globous, Glubular, round or spherical. 
Glomerate, crowded together. 
Glomerule, 159, 
Glume, the outer chaff, enveloping the 
flowers of the Grasses, 
Glume Plants, 257. 
