GLOSSARY. 



Abortion. Inipertect or non-development ot a 



part. 

 Afliene or akene. A dry, hard, l-eelled and 



1 -seeded indehiscent fruit. 

 Acuminate. Tapering to a rather long point. 

 Acute. \Mth a short sharp point. 

 Adnate. Closely united or growing to (liter- 

 ally " born with " ) . 

 Estivation. The arrangement of the parts of 



a flower in the bud. 

 Albumen. Nutritive material surrounding 



the embryo in some seeds. 

 Albumenous. Furnished with albumen. 

 Alternate. Not opposite; applied to leaves 



and flowers. 

 Anient. A spike ot unisexual ffowers, each 



subtended by a bract; a catkin. 

 Amphitropous. Said of a straight ovule or 



seed when half inverted. 

 Anatropous. Said of straight ovules or seeds 



when inverted, the micropyle being near the 



hilum. 

 Androgynous. Said of an infloresence com- 

 posed of both staminate and pistillate 



flowers. 

 Angiospermous. Having seeds borne in a 



closed pericarp. 

 Anther. The portion of a stamen which con- 

 tains the pollen. 

 Anthesis. The time of the opening of a 



flower. 

 Apetalous. Without petals or corolla. 

 Apieulate. With a short pointed tip. 

 Arcuate. Curved. 

 Aril. An appendage growling about the hilum 



of a seed. 

 Aristate. Terminating in an awn or bristle. 

 Articulated. .Joined by a more or less easilj' 



separable joint. 

 Ascending. Growing upward. 

 Auriculate. Furnished at base with ear-like 



lobes. 

 Attenuate. Long-tapering. 

 Awn. A bristle-like appendage. 

 Awned. Furnished with a•^^•ns. 

 Axil. The upper angle between the leaf and 



the stem or branch which bears it. 

 Axillary. Of or from the axil. 

 Axile. Situated in the axil. 

 Baccate. Berry-like with fleshy pulp. 

 Berry. A fruit with wholly pulpy pericarp. 

 Bifid. 2-cleft. 



Bipinnate. Twice pinnately compound. 

 Bract. Altered scale-like leaf of an infnr- 



escence. 

 Bractlet. Diminutive of bract, a secondary' 



bract. 



]3racteate. Furnished with bracts. 

 Bracteolate. Furnished Avith bractlets. 

 Caducous. Falling very early — earlier than 



deciduous. 

 Calyx. The outer of the two .series of floral 



envelopes. 

 Calyx-tube. The tube formed by the union 



of the sepals. 

 Canipanulate. Bell-shaped. 

 Campylotropous. Said of an ovule or seed 



which is curved, so that the micropyle and 



hilum are near together. 

 Canescent. Hoary with a whitish pubescence. 

 Capitate. Forming a head. 

 C'aps\ilar. Pertaining to a capsule. 

 Ca|)sule. A dry dehiscent fruit formed from 



two or more carpels. 

 Carinate. Having a keel-like medial ridge. 

 Carpel. A simple pistil or element of a com- 

 pound pistil. 

 Carpellary. Of or belonging to a carpel. 

 Caruncle. An appendage at the hilum of a 



seed. 

 Catkin. An anient. 

 Caudate. With a tail-like appendage. 

 Chalaza. The point of attachment of an 



ovule or seed with its coats. 

 Chartaceous. Ilaving a paper-like texture. 

 Ciliate. Fringed with small hairs on margin 



like miniature eyelashes. 

 Ciliolate. INfinutely ci,liate. 

 Cinereous. Of an ash-gray color. 

 Circinate. Coiled from the top down. 

 Clavate. Club-shaped. 

 Cleistogamous. Fertilized in the bud. 

 Claw. The narrow stalk-like base of petal, 



sepal, etc. 

 Cleft. Cut about to the middle. 

 Coccus, (pi. cocci) One of the portions into 



which a lobed fruit with 1-seeded cells 



splits. 

 Cochleate. Spiral; like a snail-shell. 

 Columella. The ])ersistent axis of some cap- 

 sules, etc. 

 Coma. The hairs at the end of some seeds. 

 Comose. Furnished with a coma. 

 Compound. Composed of two or more similar 



parts. 

 Compressed. Flattened laterally. 

 Conduplicate. Folded together lengthwise. 

 Connate. United or grown together. 

 Connective. The portion of a stamen which 



connects the anther-cells. 

 Connivent. Coming in contact. 

 Convolute. Rolled together lengthwise. 

 Cordate. Heart-shaped. 

 Coriaceous. Leather-like in texture. 



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