OF BOTANICAL TERMS. 
Dentate: toothed; the teeth pointing outwards 
but not forwards, 49. 
Denticulate : toothed with minute teeth. 
Depressed : flattened from above. 
Diadelphous Stamens: united by their filaments 
in two sets, 73. 
Dicotylédonous, Dicotyledonous Plants, 22, 97. 
Diffuse : loosely and widely spreading. 
Digestion in plants, 87. 
Digitate, 51. 
Dicecious Flowers, 68. 
Dissected : cut into fine divisions. 
Distinct: of separate pieces, unconnected with 
each other, 71, 73. 
Divided : cut through or nearly so, 50. 
Divisions, 49. 
Double Flowers (so called), 69. 
Downy: clothed with soft and short hairs. 
Drupe: a stone-fruit, 78. 
Drupaceous : like a drupe. 
Dry Fruits, 77, 78. 
Eared: bearing ear-like projections, or auricles, 
at the base, on one or both sides, 48. 
Elaborated Sap, 87. 
Elliptical : regularly oval or oblong. 
Emarginate: notched at the end, 49. 
Embryo: the germ of a seed, 6, 9, 83. 
Endogenous Stem, Endogenous Plants, 41, 97. 
Ensiform : sword-shaped, as the leaves of Iris 
(Fig. 64). 
Entire: the margin even, not toothed or cut, 49. 
Epidermis : the skin of a plant, 44. 
Epiphytes : air-plants, 35. 
Equitant (riding astride), 53. 
Erect, 37. 
Essential Organs of the Flower, 7. 
Evergreen: holding the leaves green over winter. 
Exogenous Stem, Exogenous Plants, 41 — 43, 97. 
Exserted: protruded, or projecting, as the sta- 
mens in Fig. 45 
Family, 94. 
Farinaceous: mealy or like meal. 
Fascicle : a bundle or close cluster, 63. 
Fascicled Roots, 36. 
Feather-veined, 46. 
Fertile Flower, 68. 
Fibrous Roots, 27, 36. 
Fiddle-shaped : obovate but contracted on each 
side near the middle. 
Filament (of a stamen), 7, 64. 
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Filiform : thread-shaped. 
Fleshy Fruits, 77. — Plants, 31. — Roots, 35. 
Floral: relating to the flower. 
Floral Envelopes, 7. 
Flower, 5, 7, 58. 
Flower-bud ; an unopened flower. 
Flower-clusters, 59. 
Flowering Plants, 58, 97. 
Flowerless Plants, 58, 97. 
Flower-stalks, 38, 60. 
Follicle: a simple pod opening down one side 
(Fig. 210), 80. 
Footstalk of a leaf, 43. 
Free: not united with any other part, as when 
the calyx is not united with the ovary, nor 
the petals with the calyx, &c., 75. 
Fringed : the margin beset with bristles, &c., or 
finely cut into slender appendages. 
Fruit, 5, 9, 77. 
Fugacious : falling or withering-very early. 
Funnel-shaped,.or Funnel-form, 72. 
Generic name: the name of the genus. 
Genus: plural Genera, 94. 
Germ, 6, 9. 
Germinate: to grow from the seed, 11. 
Germination, 11. 
Gibbous: projecting or bulging on one side. 
Glands: a name given to very different things ; 
to little fleshy bodies in some flowers (p. 128) ; 
to places in the leaves of the St. John’s- 
wort, the Orange, &c., appearing like dots, 
which contain a volatile oil; and to the lar- 
ger oil-cells in the rind of the Orange and 
Lemon. Also hairs or any projections on 
’ the surface of leaves or stalks which contain 
or exude any aromatic, glutinous, or watery 
matter, are called glands; as on the leaves 
and footstalks of the Sweet-Brier and of the 
Flowering Raspberry, p. 149. 
Glandular: bearing glands, or gland-like. 
Glandular hairs: hairs tipped with a gland or 
head. 
Glaucous: whitish or whitened with a bloom, or 
fine powdery matter that rubs off, as that on 
a Cabbage-leaf. 
Globose : shaped like a ball or sphere. 
Globular: nearly globose. 
Glomerate: collected into close or a head-like 
cluster. 
Glumaceous: glume-like ; resembling or bearing 
glumes. 
