100 PRACTICAL BOTANY. 



Deflexed : bent downward. 



Dehiscence : the mode of splitting at maturity, a term applied to 



pods and anthers. 

 Dehiscent : opening by regular splitting. 

 Dentate : toothed. 

 Denticulate: finely toothed. 

 Depressed : pressed down. 

 Di- (in Greek compounds) : two. 

 DiANDROus: with 2 stamens. 

 DiCHOTOMons or Dichotomal : two-forked. 

 Diclinous : having the stamens in one sort of flowers, the pistils in 



another. These diclinous or separate flowers are either monoecious 



or dioecious. 

 Dicotyledons : Plants with a 2- (rarely several-) leaved embryo. The 



Dicotyledons are also called Exogens. 

 Didtnamous stamens : 4 stamens in two pairs, and one pair shorter. 

 Diffuse : spreading widely and irregularly. 

 Digitate leaflets : borne on the apex of the common leaf-stalk. 



Digitate is the same asflngei-ed — ^that is, resembling the fingers of 



the hand. A digitately divided leaf: a leaf not parted as far as to 



the summit of the petiole. 



_ Dioscious : diclinous flowers on separate plants of a species, one 

 bearing the staminate, the other the pistillate ones. 



Disk: 1, a fleshy expansion of the receptacle of a distinct flower; 

 2, the central part of the receptacle of Composites. 



Dissected : cut deeply into numerous segments. 



Dissepiment: partition. 



Distinct : separate, not united by growth. 



Divaricate : straddling, widely divergent. 



Divided : cut into segments about to the base, or the midrib. 



Dodeca (in Greek compounds) : twelve. 



DoDECANDEOus : with 12 stamens. 



Dorsal and Dorsally : on or from the back. 



Downy : clothed with short, soft hairs. 



Drupe : stone-fruit, a fleshy, succulent fruit, containing one or seve- 

 ral stones or nutlets (not seeds, like the berry). 



Drupaceous : drupe-like. 



Echinate : awned with bristles or prickles. 

 Emarginate : notched at the summit. 



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