XVI SLOSSABT. 



Indeterminate ; inflorescence having always a terminal leaf- 

 bud. 



Induplicate ; wlien tlie edges of organs arranged in a valvate 

 manner are folded inwards. 



Indusium ; a thin membrane often covering the clusters of cap- 

 sules of Ferns. 



Inferior ; an inferior calyx or corolla is wholly free from the 

 ovary ; the reverse of superior. 



Inflexed ; curved inwards. 



Inflorescence. ; arrangement of the flowers. 



Innate ; attached by their base to the apex of a stalk as are some 

 anthers. 



Inserted ; growing upon. 



Internode; the spaoe between two nodes ; a joint. 



Interruptedly pinnate; when pairs of small pinnse (leaflets) 

 alternate with large pinnse. 



Introrse ; anthers having the slit by which the pollen escapes 

 directed towards the ovary. 



Inverse ; inverted. An embryo is so called when its radicle is 

 directed towards a point at the opposite end of the seed 

 from the hile. 



Involueels ; the involucres of secondary umbels. 



Involucre ; the whorled bracts at the base of an umbel or head ; 

 or sometimes below a single flower. 



Involute ; rolled from the back of any thing, as towards the 

 upper side of a leaf. 



Joinings ; the places where the parts of the stem are attached to 



each other ; the nodes. 

 Joints; the spaces between the knots, nodes, or joinings ; the 



parts joined. 



Keel ; a prominent ridge. The two lower petals of a Pea-flower, _ 

 within the others and united more or less by their anterior 

 edge, form the keel. 



Kneed ; bent like the knee. 



Knots ; the joinings or nodes of the stem in Grasses. 



Iidbel ; the terminal segment of the lip in Orchids. 

 Laciniate ; divided into narrow irregular lobes. 

 Lanceolate ; narrowly elliptic and tapering to each end. 

 Lancet-shaped ; shortly and bluntly lanceolate. 

 Lax ; loosely arranged. 



Leaflets ; the subdivisions of compound leaves. 

 Legume ; a one-celled and two-valved seed-vessel with the 

 seeds arranged along the inner angle, as the pod of a Pea. 

 Lenticular ; like a doubly convex lens. 



