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Dissected, deeply divided or cut 
into many segments. 
Drupe, a stone fruit such as a peach 
ora plum. 
Equitant, leaves astride of those 
within them, thus appearing in a 
cross section like the diagram, 
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Even-pinnate, abruptly pinnate, 
i.e. with no leaflet at the end. 
Fascicle, a close cluster or bundle 
of flowers, leaves, stems, or roots. 
Fertile, capable of producing fruit ; 
fertile flowers, those which have 
pistils. 
Filiform, thread-shaped. 
Fleshy, succulent, thick and full of 
sap. , 
Funiculus, the little stalk which 
connects a seed or ovule with the 
placenta. 
Gland : (1) a structure which secretes 
something, as the knobs on the 
hairs of sundew ; (2) any knob 
or swelling. 
Glume, one of the two sterile, 
chaffy bracts at the base of a 
grass spikelet. 
Herbaceous, with no stem above- 
ground which lives through the 
winter, not woody 
or shrubby. 
Imbricate 
Imbricate, overlap- 
ping, as the seg- 
ments of some 
perianths in the 
KEY AND FLORA 
bud. At least one segment must 
be wholly outside and one wholly 
inside. 
Indefinite, too many to be easily 
counted. 
Indehiscent, not splitting open reg- 
ularly. 
Introduced, term applied to plants 
purposely brought into a region 
by man. 
Involucrate, provided with an in- 
volucre. 
Keel, the two anterior and united 
petals of a papilionaceous corolla. 
Key, a winged fruit like that of the 
ash or maple. 
Limb, the border or spreading part 
of a gamopetalous calyx or co- 
rolla. 
Lobed, having divisions, especially 
rounded ones. 
Lodicule, one of the very minute 
scales immediately beneath each 
flower in a grass spikelet. 
Naturalized, term applied to plants 
not natives of a region but thor- 
oughly established there in a 
wild condition. 
Nerved, having simple or un- 
branched veins or slender ribs. 
Ob- (in composition), signifies in- 
versely; as, obcordate, inversely 
heart-shaped. 
Odd-pinnate, pinnate with a sin- 
gle leaflet at the end of the 
midrib. 
