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in Flora’s Dictionary, 
Aculeata, or Aculeus, prickly, sherooiee projections 
rk, as in the rose. A nor sige isa 
sharp-pointed ig on growing from the woody 
subs nt, as in hawthor 
Piast icing reicute g as a taper, or r awl-shaped ex- 
beariacag 
Amen e Cat 
A scree petene ihe one leaf grows out of the top 
nother; or the nines culm or straw of grasses. 
Aw/l-shaped, see Subu 
pe re sharp ious or eneer issuing from the glume, 
alled awns, or ariste, as in bearded wheat. 
fetiges ‘"Y; sini the flower-stalk grows between the leaf 
and the s 
Banner, see ‘Sta 
Barbatus, odie pean hairs. 
an d, two-cleft. 
vate, growing in pairs 
Fonte twice ternaie.:6 or doubly three-leafed. 
Bractea ited, i bractea, ) a floral leaf, differing from the 
other leaves in shape and color, generally situated on 
‘he at hiss so near the corolla as easily to be m 
taken for the calyx. These Jractes, are indisputable 
leaves, and net “obey the aisyioattton of those or- 
gans in the rest of the plant. They frequently assume 
the brightest. aa esa as bai scarlet, ete., while 
the corolla itself may be 
ce falling early. k eddicebas calyx falls before 
corolla is well unfolded, as in the poppy. Cadu- 
mer. 
calyx 
— growing in a head, applied to a flower, or 
Deals the or Ria of a plant; a dry membraneous 
hollow 
Ciliate, wigan with parallel hairs 
aw, the narrow _ - the petal below, by which it 
is etl or attac 
ov flower, a ie er of the class syngenesia, con- 
Cone, a scaly fruit like that of the pine. See Strobiles. 
Conivate, opposite, with the bases united, or growing 
into one; as in the upper leaves of honeys uckle. 
Coriaceous, (from corium, leather, ) stiff, like leather, or 
parchment. 
sara one of the partial flowers which are a com- 
; the floret in an aggregate flow 
Paae (coeynbes, L. a top, head, or Saas: ) a kind 
of spike, in which the caciial stalks are gradually 
longer as they stand lower on the common stalk, so 
that all the flowers are nearly on a level. 
Cotyledon, (a hollow, or cavity.) In botany, the perish- 
of plants. 
Crenate, (scolloped, ) when the teeth ed, 
not directed towards either end of the leaf, as in 
ground In 
Cuculate, nocied or cowled ; ie or folded in; as in 
or Indian t wrni p. 
mbel ; 
be aaa all ing 
from one centre, ffering faci those plants, in 
having iad stalks variously and alternately subdivi- 
ded, as in elder, and guelder-rose 
Deciduo «, falling, not perennial, or perma 
geen leaf falls in autumn. 
that which falls after 26 coral ‘iis 
Decumbent, leaning upon the ground, the base only 
erect. 
rmanent. A de- 
deciduous calyz, 
= ars nding downward arch-w 
toothed, notched, having sine like teeth on 
Tae margin of the leaf. 
Denticulate, en toothed 
— where e radical leaves are wane close 
o the pase 
