GLOSSARY OF BOTANICAL TERMS 
DENTATE.—Applied to leaves that have their margins toothed, with the teeth 
directed outward. 
DIADELPHOUS.—In two brotherhoods. Applied to stamens when cohetin z 
by their filaments into two sets. 
DicnoTomous.—Forking ; dividing into two equal branches. 
DicoTyLEDON.—A plant whose embryo has two opposite cotyledons. 
DirFuse.—Widely spreading. 
DicitaTE.—Applied to a compound leaf in which all the leaflets radiate frorn 
the top of the petiole. 
Dicécious.—In two households. With staminate and pistillate flowers sep- 
arate and on separate plants. 
Discoip.—Having the form of adisc. Descriptive of the shapes of certain 
stigmas, glands, etc. 
Disk.—A development of the receptacle at or around the base of the pistil. 
DIssEPIMENT.—A partition in a fruit. 
Drure.—A fleshy or pulpy fruit with the inner portion of the pericarp hard 
or stony. <A stone fruit. 
DuRAMEN.— Heartwood. 
EcHINATE.—Beset with prickles. 
EMARGINATE.—Notched. Applied to a leaf which is notched at the apex. 
Empryo.—Applied in botany to the tiny plant within the seed. 
Enpocarp.—The inner layer of the pericarp. 
Epicarp.—The outer layer of the pericarp. 
EpicyNous.—Growing on the summit of the ovary, or apparently so. 
Erose.—Irregularly toothed, as if gnawed. 
ET&rio.—A fruit, the product of a single flower, which consists of small 
aggregated drupes. 
Exocare.—The outer layer of the pericarp. 
EXseRTED.—Protruding ; as stamens extending beyond the throat of a 
corolla. 
ExtTrorsE.—Facing outward. Applied <o anthers which face away from 
the pistil. 
FALCATE.—Curved or sickle-shaped. 
FascicLe.—A bundle. Applied to a compact cyme or a compact cluster of 
leaves. 
FERTILIZATION.—The union which takes place when the contents of the pol- 
len cell enters the ovule. 
FIpro-vASCULAR BUNDLES.—The bundles of vascular tissues of plants. 
FILAMENT.—The stalk which supports the anther. 
FILIFORM.—Thread-like. 
FoLIACEOus.—Leaf-like. 
Fucacious.—Soon falling off. 
GaLBuLus.—A berry-like cone, as the fruit of the Juniper. 
GaMopETALous.—Having the petals more or less united. 
GAMOSEPALOUS.—Having the sepals more or less united. 
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