GLOSSARY. ■ 111 



Tawny : dull-ye!lowish, or somewhat brownish. 



Tendril : a thread-shaped, coiling appendage (a modification of a 



branch or a leaf) to the weak stems of certain plants, serving the 



purpose of climbing. 



Terete : cylindrical and tapering. 



Terminal : borne at the summit. 



Ternate: in threes. A ta-nate leaf: a leaf with three leaflets. 



Terrestrial : existing on the earth. 



Tetradynamous stamens: C stamens, 2 of them shorter than the 



rest. 

 Tetramerous : having the parts or sets in fours. 

 Tetrandhous : having 4 stamens. 

 Throat : the orifice of a gamopetalous corolla at the junction of the 



tube and border. 

 Tomentose : clothed with matted, woolly hairs. 

 Toothed : furnished with erect teeth. 

 ToROSE : knobby. 



Torulose : cylindrical with swel's and contractions. 

 Tei-, as a prefix : three. Trifid : 3-cleft. 

 Triadelphous : filaments of the stamens in 3 clusters. 

 Triandrocs : with 3 stamens. 

 Trimekous : with the parts in threes. 

 Triccspidate : with 3 cusps, 3-pointed. 

 Tbifid: 8-cleft. 



Trifoliolate : with 3 leaflets, as the leaves of Trefoil. 

 Triple-ribbed, or nerved : having a mid-rib divided into S branches 



near the base of the blade of the leaf. 

 Tritebnate : three times ternate. 

 Truncate : as if cut oflT^at the top. 

 Trtma : a sort of dryish drupe, 3-coated, the epicarp flbro-fleshy or 



woody, and the nucleus bony. Such fruits are the Hickory and 



Butternut. 

 Tuber : a thickened portion of an underground stem or branch, fur- 

 nished with buds (eyes). 

 Tubercle : a small excrescence, or wart-like protuberance. 

 Tubebcled : with a tubercle. 

 Tubular : hollow and of an elongated shape. 

 Tumid: swollen. 

 Umbel : an umbrella-like sort of centripetal inflorescence, in which 



the pedicels resemble the rays of an umbrella, springing all from 



one point. 



