GLOSSARY. 



poly and rous, having many stamens. 

 polygynous, having many stylos. 

 polypetalous, having many petals, 

 polysperma, having many seeds, 

 pomum, an apple, 

 pores. 



precocity, ripe sooner than usual, 

 proliferous, or prolific, 

 propendant, or hanging forwards. 

 pubescent, or downy, 

 pulvinate, or cushion-shaped, 

 punctiform, formed like points, 

 pungent, or prickly, 

 pustules, or pimples, 

 pyriform, or pear-shaped. 



quadrangular, or4-angled. 

 quadrifarous, in 4 rows. 

 quadrifid, 4-cleft. 

 quaternate, in fours, 

 quinate, in fives, 

 quinquifid, 5-cleft. 



racemose, or flowering in racemes. 



radiate. 



radical, proceeding from the root. 



radius, or rayed. 



ramose, or branchy. 



receptacle, or part of fructification 



which supports the other part of it. 

 rectangular, or right angled, 

 recurved, or bent backward, 

 reflexed, or bent backward, 

 reniform, or kidney-shaped, 

 repand. 



replicate, folded back, 

 resupinate. 

 reticulate, like a net. 

 retuse, or blunt, 

 revolute, rolled back, 

 rhomboid, or like a rhombus, 

 rigid, or stiff, 

 ringent, or gaping, 

 rotate. 



rotund, or roundish, 

 rugose, rough or wrinkled, 

 runcinate. 



saccate, having a bag, or pouch. 



sagittate, or arrow-shaped. 



samara, seed vessel. 



sarmentose, or producing runners. 



scabrous, rough. 



scales. 



scariose, or scarious. 



scape, or stem bearing the flowers. 



scrobiculate, of little hollows. 



secund, arranged on 1 side. 



segments, or parts of the leaves or 



flowers, 

 sepals, segments of the calyx, 

 septa, the divisions of the interior of 



the fruit, 

 serrated, or sawed, 

 serrulate, finely sawed, 

 sessile, or having no footstalks, 

 setaceous, or bristly-like, 

 bristles. 



seta. 



sili. 



siliq. 



sinu. 



smth. 



sobol. 



spa. 



spath. 



spat. 



sphace. 



sphce. 



spk. 



spinif. 



spin. 



spir. 



spr. 



spur. 



spu. 



squamif. 



squar. 



stam. 



staminif. 



stand. 



stell. 



ster. 



stig. 



stimu. 



stipit. 



stip. 



stolonif. 



striat. 



strig. 



strum. 



sty. 



sub-dent. 



sub-cord. 



succul. 



subul. 



suffr. 



sulc. 



sure. 



sut. 



syng. 



Tend. 



ter. 



term. 



tern. 



testae. 



tetrach. 



tetr. 



tetrap. 



tetras. 



tetrasp. 



thalam. 



thee. 



thyr. 



torn. 



toro. 



tort. 



trapez. 



trian. 



trich. 



tricus. 



trifar. 



setose, covered with bristles. 



silicic, or round pod, or pouch. 



siliqua, a long pod. 



sinuate, or bending in and out. 



smooth. 



soboliferous, or producing young plants. 



the patches of fructification on the back 



of the fronds of ferns, &c. 

 spadix, a spike, 

 spathaceous, having a spatha. 

 spathnlate. 



sphacelate, or withered. 

 sphaerical, or round like a sphere, 

 spike. 



spiniform, formed like a spine, 

 spinous, spiny, 

 spiral, 

 spreading, 

 spurious, 

 spurs. 



squamiform, like scales. 

 squarrose. 



stamen, or male part of the flower, 

 staminiferous, bearing stamens, 

 standard, upper segment of the pea 



blossomed flowers, 

 stellate, or star-like, 

 sterile, or barren, 



stigma, the female part of the flower, 

 stimuli, stinging hairs, 

 stipitate, or having a short stalk, 

 stipulae, or small scales at the base of 



the leaves, 

 stoloniferous, having creeping roots, 

 striated, or furrowed, 

 strigose, having hairs, 

 strumose, or strumous, 

 style. 



> a little dented, or heart-shaped. 



succulent, or fleshy, 

 subulate, or awl-shaped, 

 suffruticose, or shrubby, 

 sulcate, or furrowed, 

 surculi, or young shoots, 

 suture, 

 syngenesious. 



tendrils. 



terete, taper or round, 

 terminal, or ending at the top. 

 ternate, or growing in three's, 

 testaceous, or having a shell, 

 tetrachotomus, or 4-forked. 

 tetrandrous, or having 4 stamens, 

 tetrapetalous, having 4 petals, 

 tetrasepalous, having 4 sepals, 

 tetraspermous, having 4 seeds. 

 thalamas. 



thecae, having a case. 

 thyrse, or a dense panicle, 

 tomentose, or densely hairy. 

 torose, uneven, 

 tortuose, twisted, 

 trapeziform, trapezium-shaped, 

 triandrous, having 3 stamens, 

 trichotomus, 3-forked. 

 tricuspidate, or 3-pointed 

 trifarious, arranged in 3 ways. 



