204 GL08SART. 



AaHeaie: armed with prickles, i. o. aculd; as the Rose and Brier. 



Aciileolate : armed with small prickles, or slightly prickly. 



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



Acute ! merely sharp-pointed, or ending in a point less than a right angle. 



Adelphous (stamens) : j5ined in A fi^tetnity (adelphia) : see monadelphom and 



diadelphous. 

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

 Adnate : growing fast to ; it means bom adherent. The anther is adnate when 



fixed by its whole length to the filament or its prolgi^a^oq, as in .TuUp- 

 ■ ' tree, fig. 233.'" .!--'• ' ^ ' ' i ^u f '■ ■ ' i-Cl 



Adpressed, or oppressed: brottght into contact, but not nnited. 

 Adscendent, ascendent, or ascending : rising gradually upwards. 

 Adsurgent, or assurgent ; same as ascei^ding., 



Adventitious: otftof the pVop'er'or usual pface; &'%. 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-celh or Air-pcasdges : spaced in the tissue o^ lekves and some stems, p. 143. 

 Air-Plants, p. 34. 

 Alc^nium, or afcene. See achenium. 

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



fig. 218, M». •■ • u 



Alabdstrum : a flower-bud. ' 



Alar: situated in the forks of a stem. 

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



Elm (fig.. 301), &c. 

 Albescent : whitish, or turning white; 

 Absofplioh, 'p.'16S. "' " 



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



within it; p. 15, 136. 

 AVjiimen, a vegetable product; a form of proteine, p. 165. 

 Albuminous (seeds) : furnished with albumen, as the seeds of Indian com (fig. S8, 



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

 )4Wrnu»n; young *ood,' sap-wood, p 153. 

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

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



sepal?, or stamens with the petals, when they stand over the intervals be- 

 tween them, p. 93. 

 AtiMolaie : hbueycomb-like, as the receptacle of the Cotton-Thistle. 

 Ament: a catkin, p. 81. Am^taceous: catkin-Iike, or iatkin-bearing. 

 Amorphous: shapeless; without aiiy definite form. 

 Amphigdstrium (pliiral amphigastria) : a peculiar stipule-like leaf of certaiB 



Liverworts. 

 AmphOropoia or Amphilropfl ovules or seeds, p. 123, fig. 272. 

 AmpUetaht': embracing. j4mpfei«;au? (leaves) : clasping the stem by the base. 

 Ampulldceous : swelling out like a 1)ottle or fcladder. 

 Amyldceous : composed of Starch, or starch-like. 



