GLOSSARY OF BOTANICAL TERMS. 



Abnormal. — Differing from the usual structure. 



ABOKriox. — Imperfect development or non-development of an organ. 



Abortive. — Imperfectly developed or rudimentary. 



ACL'MIX.A.TE. — Tapering at the end. 



Acu'tE. — Forming a sharp angle. 



Adhesion. — The union of members of different floral whorls. 



Adx.\te. — Grown together. 



Adventitiols. — Occurring out of the regular order. 



^STIV.ATIOX. — The arrangement of floral organs in the bud. 



Akexe. — A small, dry, hard, one-celled, one-seeded, indehiscent fruit. 



Album EX. — A name applied to the food store laid up outside the embryo in 



man\' seeds ; also nitrogenous organic matter found in animals and 



plants. 

 Alburnum. — Sapwood. 

 Alterx.\te. — -\pplied to that form of leaf arrangement in wdiich only one 



leaf occurs at a node. 

 Amext'. — A scaly spike or catkin. 



Angiosperms. — Those plants which bear their seeds within a pericarr 

 Anther. — That part of the stamen which bears the pollen. 

 APET.A.LOUS. — Having no petals. 

 Appressed. — Lying close and flat against. 

 Arborescent. — A tree in size and habit of growth. 

 ^l^II.. — The exterior coat of some seeds. 



Awl-SHAPED. — Narrowed upward from the -base to a slender or rigid point. 

 ^XIL. — The upper one of the two angles formed by the juncture of the leaf 



with the stem. 

 Axillary. — Situated in an axil. 



]^.\gx. — -A name applied to the inner layer of the bark. 

 Beaked.— Ending in a prolonged tip. 

 BerRV. — A fruit whose entire pericarp is succulent. 

 Bl-PiNN.\rE. — Applied to a leaf which is twice compounded on the pinnate 



plan. 

 Bractlets. — The smaller bracts borne on pedicels. 

 Bracts. The modified leaves borne on flower peduncles or at the base of 



flower stems. 



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