GLOSSAEY. 



^ (as a prefix) : without or destitute of; as Apetalous, ■without petals. 



Abei-rant : departing or wandering from the type or usual form. 



Abnormal : of unusual or unnatural form or structure. 



Abortion : non-development. 



Abortive : not developing; or if so, but slightly. 



Abruptly pinnate : having a pair of terminal leaflets. 



Acaukseent : without an evident stem. 



Accessory : added to ; as Accessory buds. 



Acerose: needle-like. 



Achenium : a dry, indehiscent, one-seeded, seed-like fruit. 



AcMamydeous : without any perianth* 



Aeieidar : finely needle-shaped. 



Aeotyledanoua : destitute of cotyledons. 



Acrocarpous Mosses : those bearing the fruit at the apex of the stem. 



Aerogen: top-grower ; as Ferns, Mosses, etc. 



Aerogenous : growing at the top. 



Aeropetal : towards, or approaching the top. 



Aculeate : having prickles. 



Acuminate : with a sharp, drawn-out point. 



Acute : sharp-pointed. 



Adelphous: united; as filaments of stamens. 



Adherent: growing together of diiferent parts ; as calyX- and ovary. 



Adnaie : growing fast to a difierent organ or pairt. 



Adnate anther: attached by its whole length to the apex of the 



filament. 

 Adnation: the growing fast, or together, of difierent parts or organs. 

 Adventitious : appearing at an unusual place. 

 Adventive : accidentally introduced, but hardly naturalized. 

 ^ddioapore: a spore of the .£cidium. Ji^cidiatl stage of certain 



Fungi. 

 JEeidium: the first stage, (formerly considered a genus) in the 



development of the Cluster-cup Fungi (UredineseX 

 Aerial : not growing on or in the sou ; dferiving nourishment from 



the air. 

 ASrophytes : aerial plants ; epiphytes. 



.^Ssfivation-, or Pra-floration : arrangement of the parts in a flower-bad. 

 Affinity : close and natural relationship. 

 Aggregate: collected together. 



Air pkmts : those deriving nourishment wholly from the air.- 

 Akene: achenium. 



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