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Dissected, deeply divided or cut 
into many segments. 
Drupe, a stone fruit such as a peach 
or a 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. 
