GLOSSARY OF SOME BOTANICAL TERMS 



Abrupt, blunt, as if broken off. 

 Acuminate, tapering to a sharp 



point. 

 Acute, sharp pointed. 

 Mstivation, the state of flowers in 



bud. 

 Alternate, the arrangement of 



leaves on a stem when they 



alternate from side to side. 

 Angular, leaves or steins when 



angled. 

 Annual, lasting one year. 

 Anther, the top of a stamen which 



contains the pollen. 

 Apetalous, without petals. 

 Aquatic, growing in water. 

 Arillus, a dry covering of some 



seeds, as Mace. 

 A scending, applied to stems which 



first lie prostrate on the ground 



and then rise perpendicularly. 

 Awn, a. stiff bristle, as in barley. 

 Axil, the angle between a leaf and 



the stem. 

 Axillary, growing in an axil. 



Barren, bearing stamens, but no 

 pistils. 



Biennial, lasting two years. 



Bifid, two-cleft. 



Bipinnate, twice pinnate. 



Bipinnatifid, twice cut in a pin- 

 nate manner. 



Border, the expanded part of the 

 corolla. 



Bracts, small leaves at the base of 

 a flower-stalk. 



Caducous, falling off very early, as 

 the sepals of the Poppy. 



Calyx, the outer case or sepals of 

 a flower. 



Capillary, hair-like. 



Capitate, round like a head. 



Capsule, a dry seed-vessel. 

 Carpels, ovaries with their styles 



and stigmas. 

 Cell, a vesicle, or little bladder, 



the simplest form of vegetable 



structure. 

 Cellular, composed of cells, 

 Cernuous, nodding. 

 Ciliated, fringed. 

 Circinate, curled, like the young 



frond of a fern. 

 Claw, the base of a petal. 

 Club-shaped, cylindrical, but be- 

 coming larger from the base 



upwards. 

 Colottred, not green. 

 Column, a name given to the 



united pistil and stamens in the 



Orchis Tribe. 

 Cone, the fruit of the Fir Tribe. 

 Conical, cone-shaped. 

 Connate, growing together. 

 Convolute, rolled together. 

 Corculum, the same as embryo. 

 Cordate, heart-shaped. 

 Corm, a sohd bulbous root, as 



Crocu*. 

 Corolla, the inner leaves or petals 



of a flower. 

 Cotyledon, a seed-lobe. 

 Crenate, scolloped at the edge. 

 Crucijorrti, placed crosswise. 

 Cryptogainous, or Cryptogamic ; 



plants are so called which are 



reproduced without the aid of 



stamens or pistils. 

 Culm, the stalk of grasses. 

 Cuticle, the thin outer skin of a 



plant. 



Deciduous, soon faUing off. 

 Decurrent, running down the stem. 

 Dichlamydeous, having a double 

 perianth. 



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