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Witid. Enum. See Willdenow’s Enumeration, | 
Ce 
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Wild. Herb. Willdenow’s Herbarium. 
Willd. Hort. Ber. See Willd. Enum. 
Wilid. MSS. Willdenow in Manuscript. 
Willd. Sp. See Willd. Sp. Pl. 
Willd. Spec. See ibid. 
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Wilden’s Vegetation of Dalmatia, Reviewed in 
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Winch Geogr. Distrib. An Essay on the Geo- 
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GLOSSARIAL INDEX. 
Counties of Northumberland, Cumberland, and 
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Withering’s Botany. A Systematical Arrange- 
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- Birmingham, 1776, 2 vols. 8vo ; ed. 7. with ad- 
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Woodville’s Med. Bot. Medical Botany; con- 
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TWoodville’s Med. Bot. Suppl. See Woodville’s 
Med. Bot. 
Z. 
Zuce, Flora. Siebold (P. F. de) and Zuccarini 
(J. G.), Flora Japonica: ' fol. 
GLOSSARIAL INDEX. 
A. 
Accessory, something added to the usual number 
of organs. 
Accumbent, reclining or lying on. 
Acerose, slender, or needle-shaped, as in the 
leaves of some of the cone-bearing trees. 
Achenium, a dry truit, which does not open when 
ripe, and contains one seed not adhering to the 
pericarp. 
Acicular, needle-shaped. 
Acuminated, having a taper point. 
Acute, sharp-pointed. 
Adnate, grown to for its whole length. 
4Estivation, the folding of the parts of a flower in 
the bud. 
Aggregate, clustered. 
Albumen, the solid farinaceous part of the seed, 
destined to nourish the embryo. 
Albuminous, furnished with albumen. 
Alburnum, the sap-wood of trees. 
Alveolate, honeycomb-like. 
Ament, a catkin, or inflorescence consisting of 
chaffy scales, arranged along a thread-like re- 
ceptacle. 5 
Amentaceous, producing or bearing aments. 
Anastomosing, uniting of nerves and veins. 
Androgynous, producing flowers of both sexes on 
the same plant. 
Angulate, having acute angles. 
Annulated, ringed, exhibiting circular promi- 
nences. 
Antheriferous, furnished with anthers. 
Anther, the part of the stamen which contains 
the pollen. 
Apex, the end, or termination. 
Apicarp. See Epicarp. 
Apiculatea, terminated in a little point, or 
prickle. 
Appendicled, having an additional small leaf at 
the base of the petiole. 
Approsmate, near to. 
Arborescent, having a tendency to become a tree. 
Argutely, sharply. 
Aril, yan enlargement of the placenta adher- 
Arillus, § ing to the hilum of seeds, and sometimes 
enveloping them; exemplified in the outer 
orange-coloured coat of the sced of Zuény- 
mus europ2‘us. 
Arrow-shuped, lobed so as to resemble 2 barbed 
arrow. 
Articulate, jointed. 
Assurgent, becoming erect. 
pec i gradually tapering to a point. 
Auricle, an ear-like appendage. 
Awl-shaped, narrow pointed, 
Awn, a long bristly appendage, as the beard of 
‘corn, &c. 
Axillary, situated in the axils, or angles formed 
by the union of the leaf and stem. 
B. 
Baccate, berry-like ; that is, with the seeds buried 
ane fleshy substance, enclosed in a thin outer 
skin. 
Beaked, ending in a hard curved point. 
Bellying, swelling unequally on one side. 
Biaristate, doubly awned. 
Bibracteate, furnished with two bracteas. 
Bicallose, having two small callosities, or protu- 
berances. is 
Bicuspidate, having two points. 
Bifid, two-cleft. 
Bitabiate, having two lips. 
Bilameliate, divided into two flat parts. 
Bilocular, two-celled. 
Bipartite, two-parted. 
Bipinnate, twice pinnate. 
Bisetose, having two bristles. 
Biternate, twice ternate. 
Bladdery, swelled out, hollow. 
Bossed, convex, and having a projecting point in 
the centre. 
Bractea, the floral leaf, situated immediately 
under the flower. 
Bracteate, furnished with bracteas. 
Bracteole, a small bractea. 
Bran-like, having a scaly scurfy appearance. 
Bristle-pointed, terminating ina bristle. 
Cc. 
Caducous, falling off soon: a calyx which falls 
off before the expansion of the corolla is said te 
be caducous. 
Calyculate, having bracteas so disposed as to re- 
semble an additional calyx. 
Calyptra, a thin extinguisher-shaped covering, 
orhollowcone. |. 
Calyx, the outer envelope of a flower. 
Cambium, elaborated sap. 
Campanulate, bell-shaped. 
Canaticulate, channeled, furrowed. 
Canescent, somewhat white, hoary. 
Capillary, hair-like, very slender. 
Capitate, growing in a head ; round and blunt. 
Eanonee, Pknobbed ; growing in small heads, 
