XXlV GLOSSABT. 



Testa; the outer coat of a seed. 



Testaceous ; brownish yellow. 



Tetragonous ; with four angles and four convex faces. 



Thorn ; an abortive branch with a sharp point ; distin^shed 



from a prickle by being woody. 

 Three-veined; having three veins, usually of nearly equal size, 



proceeding from the base. Sometimes leaves are falsely 



three-veined when the ends of a series of lateral veins com- 



Ijine to form a submarginal vein near each edge of the leaf. 

 Throat ; the orifice of the tube of a gamopetalous corolla or 



gamosepalous calyx. 

 Thyrsoid ; having a close-branched raceme of which the middle 



is broader than the ends. 

 Tommtose ; covered with cottony entangled hairs, forming a 



matted shagginess called tomentum ; felted. 

 Tortelose ; uneven, alternately elevated and depressed like a 



knotted cord. 

 Torus ; the part within the calyx to which the floral organs are 



attached. 

 Transversely ; applied to forms like oval when attached by one 



of their longer sides. 

 Triangular ; with three angles and three flat faces. 

 Trichotomous; in forks of three prongs. 

 Trifarious ; arra,nged in three rows. 

 Trifid; dividing about haJfway down into three parts. 

 Trifurcate ; forked with three nearly equal prongs. 

 Trigonous ; with three angles and three convex faces. 

 Tripartite ; divided into three parts nearly to its base. 

 Triquetrous ; having three angles and three concave faces. 

 Truncate ; blunt as if cut off at the end. 

 Tvhe ; the pipe formed by the cohesion of the parts of a floral 



whorl. 

 Tuber ; a thickened underground fleshy part of the stem. 

 Tubercles ; little round knobs. 

 Tubercular ; tubercled ; covered with little knobs. 

 Tuberous ; hke a tuber, but not part of the stem. 

 Tubular ; hollow and nearly cylindrical. 

 Tumid; swollen. 



Turbinate ; topshaped, conical and attached by its long point. 

 Two-edged ; compressed so as to have two sharp edges. 



Umbel; when many stalked flowers spring from one point and 

 reach about the same level. Partial umbels are umbels 

 seated upon the branches of an umbel, when the whole 

 forms a compound umbel, 



Umbilicate ; peltate, but having the attached organ hollowed to 

 receive the top of the stalk. 



