346 GLOSSARY. 



Imbricate : overlapping, like shingles or tile on a roof. 



Immersed : under water. 



Imperfect flower : one which is destitute of either stamens or pistils. 



Incised : cut ; jagged ; cut irregularly. 



Included : not protruding ; enclosed. 



Incomplete flower : with one or more of the four parts wanting. 



Indefinite : of no fixed number ; (in inflorescence) centripetal or in 



the direction of the apex or top. 

 Indehiscent : not opening of itself. 



Indeterminate : not definite, (in inflorescence) same as indefinite. 

 Indigenous : native ; not introduced. 

 Induplicate : with edges folded in, or turned inwards. 

 Indusium : the thin membrane sometimes covering the sori. 

 Inferior : below ; attached below. 

 Inflated : swollen or bladdery. 



Inflexed : turned inwards'. • 



Inflorescence : arrangement of flowers on the stem ; flowering. 

 Innaie anther : one attached by its base to the apex of the filament. 

 Inserted : attached. 



Insertion : mode or place of attachment. 

 Inspissated : thickened by evaporation. 

 Intercalary growth : that which takes place at an intermediate point 



and not at the apex. 

 InterceUvlar spaces : spaces arising between cells. 

 Internode : the portion of the stem between the nodes or joints. 

 Inline : the inner coat or membrane of the pollen grain. 

 IntroTse : turned inwards or towards the axis. 

 InlvMusception : interstitial reception of partides. 

 Involved : a small or partial involucre. 

 Invohierale : having an involucre. 



Involucre : a whorl of bracts or leaves below a flower or other part. 

 Involute: rolled inwards. 

 Irregular flower : one in which some of the members or any one or 



more sets of organs are unlike the others in shape or size. 



Ked : a projecting ridge ;-the two anterior petals of a Papilionaceous 



flower. 

 Key-fruit : samara, as the fruit of the Maple. 

 Kingdom : the most comprehensive group in nature, as Vegetable 



Kingdom. 



LdbeUvm : the odd (more or less modified) petal of an Orchid flower. 



labiaie: lip-shaped; bilabiate. 



Lamdh : a flat plate or thin layer ; blade. 



Lamina: blade; a plate. 



Lanate (Lamose) : woolly, or with soft entangled hairs. 



Lanceolate : shaped like a lance. 



Latent : not developed ; dormant ; concealed. 



Latex : the juice (usually milky or colored) in vessels of plants. 



Lalieiferous : having latex. 



