206 GLOSSARY OF TERMS AND INDEX TO PART I 
Elliptical. Having the form of an elongated oval, 20. 
Emarginate. With a notched tip, 22. 
Endogenous. Inside-growing ; growing throughout the substance 
of the stem, 12. 
Entire. With an even edge; not notched, 22. 
Enveloping organs. In a flower, the calyx and corolla which cover 
the stamens and pistil, 25. 
Essential organs. In a flower, the organs needed to produce seeds; 
the stamens and pistil, 25. : 
Evergreen. Retaining the leaves (in a more or less green condition) 
through the winter and till new ones appear, 23. 
Excurrent. With the trunk continued to the top of the tree, 16, 29. 
Exogenous. Outside-growing; growing by annual layers near the 
surface, 11. 
Exserted. Projecting beyond an envelope, as the stamens from a 
corolla, or the bracts beyond the scales of a cone, 28. 
Exstipulate. Without stipules, 19. 
Extra-axillary buds, 30. 
Fasciculated. In clusters or fascicles, 18. 
Feather-veined. With the veins of a leaf all springing from the 
sides of the midrib, 20. 
Fibrous. Composed of fine threads or fibers. 
Filament. The stalk of a stamen, 24; any thread-like body. 
Flowering. Having flowers. 
Flowers, 24; clusters of, 26; kinds of, 25. 
Folding of leaves in the bud, 33. 
Foliaceous. Like a leaf in texture or appearance. 
‘Footstalk. The stem of a leaf (petiole), or the stem of a flower 
(peduncle). 
Forms of leaves, 20. 
Fruit, 24, 26. 
Gamopetalous. Same as monopetalous, 25. 
Glabrous. Having a smooth surface; free from hairs, bristles, or 
any pubescence, 23. 
Glands. Small cellular organs which secrete oily, aromatic, or 
other products. They are sometimes sunk in the leaves, etc., as on 
the Prickly-ash; sometimes on the surface as small projections; 
sometimes on the ends of hairs. The word is also used to indicate 
small swellings, whether there is a secretion or not. 
Glandular. Having glands. Glandular-hairy. With glandular- 
tipped hairs, 23. 
Glaucous. Covered with a fine white powder that rubs off, 23. 
