204 GLOSSART. 



Aaileate : armed with prickles, I.e. acuM ; as the Rose and Brier. 



Aciileohte : armed with small prickles, or slightly prickly. 



Acuminate: taper-pointed, as the leaf in fig. 97 and fig. 103. 



Acute: merely shai-p-pointed, or ending in a point less than a right angle. 



Adelphous (stamens) : joined in a fraternity (adelphia) : see monadelphous and 



diadelphous. 

 Adherent : sticking to, or, more commonly, growing fast to another body ; p. 104. 

 Adnate: growing fast to ; it means bovn adiierent. The anther is adnate when 



fixed by its wliole length to the filament or its prolongation, as in Tulip- 

 tree, fig. 233. 

 Adpressed, or oppressed: brought into contact, but not united. 

 Adscendent, ascendent, or ascending : rising gradually upwards.. 

 Adsiirgent, or assurgent; same as ascending. 



Adventitious: out of the proper or usual place; e. g. Adventitious buds, p. 26, 27. 

 Adventive : applied to foreign plants accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a 



country, but hardly to be called naturalized. 

 Equilateral : equal-sided ; opposed to oblique. 

 Estivation : the arrangement of parts in a flower-bud, p. 108. 

 Air-cells or Air-passages : spaces in the tissue of leaves and some stems, p. 143. 

 Air-Plants, p. 34. 

 Alce'nium, or akene. See achenium. 

 Ala (plural alee) : a wing ; the sidiVpetals of a papilionaceous corolla, p. 105, 



fig. 218, w. 

 Aluhdstrum : a flower-bud. 

 Alar: situated in the forks of a stem. 

 Alate : winged, as the seeds of Trumpet-Creeper (fig. 316) the fruit of the Maple, 



Elm (fig. 301 ), &c. 

 Albescent : whitish, or turning white. 

 Absorption, p. 168. 

 Albumen of the seed : nourishing matter stored up with the embryo, but not 



within it; p. 1.5, 136. 

 Albumen, a vegetable product; a form of proteine, p. 165. ' 



Albuminous (seeds) : furnished with albumen, as the seeds of Indian com (fig. 38, 



39), of Buckwheat (fig 326); &c. 

 Alburnum: yoimg wood, sap-wood, p 153. 

 Alpine: belonging to high mountains above the limit of forests. 

 Alternate (leaves) : one after another, p. 24, 71. Petals are alternaie with the 



sepals, or stamens with the petals, when they stand over the intervals ba- 



tween them, p. 93. 

 Alve'olate : honeycomb-like, as the receptacle of the Cotton-Thistle. 

 Ament: a catkin, p. 81. Amentaceous: catkin-like, or catkin-bearing. 

 Amorphous ; shapeless ; without any definite form. 

 Amphigdstrium (plural amphigastria) : u peculiar stipule-like leaf of certair 



Liverworts 

 Amphttropous or Amphttropal ovules or seeds, p. 123, fig. 272. 

 Amplfctant: emhracin<r. Amplexicaul (leaves) : clasping the stem by tho base. 

 Ampnlldceous : swolline out like a bottle or bladder. 

 Amyldceous ; composed of starcli, or starch-like. 



