GLOSSARY 



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DICTIONARY OF BOTANICAL TERMS. 



(COMBINED WITH AN INDEX.) 



Acaulescent, without an apparent stem — 



the true leaf- and flower-bearing stem 



being short or subterranean. 

 Aclienium (or akene), a dry 1-seeded fruit, 



Fig. 82, p. 41. 

 Acicular, needle-shaped. 

 Acrogenous, growing only from the sum- 

 mit, as the stems of ferns and mosses. 

 Aculeate, armed with prickles. 

 Acuminate, taper-pointed. 

 Acute, sharp-pointed. 

 Adnate (anther), attached by one face to 



the side of the filament, p. 33. 

 Adventitious roots, p. 6. 

 Adventitious roots of parasitic plants, Fig. 



13, p. 7. 

 Air-plants, those nourished by aerial roots, 



p. 9. 

 Akene (or achenium\ a dry 1-seeded fruit, 



Fig. 82, p. 41. 

 Alate, winged. 

 Albumen, p. 45. 

 Alburnum, sap-wood, p. 15. 

 Alternate, one after another, as alternate 



leaves. 

 Alveolate, like honeycomb. 

 Andrmcium, a collective name for the 



stamens. 

 Annual, a plant which germinates from 



the seed, produces flowers and fruit, and 



dies the same season, p. 0. 

 Annual rings (of wood), Fig. 19, p. 14. 



Anther, the essential part of the stamen, 

 Figs. 59, 73, 74, p. 32. 



Apetalous, without a corolla, p. 32. 



Aphyllous, destitute of leaves. 



Apprcssed, in close contact but not united. 



Arboreous (or arborescent), tree-like. 



Arillus (or aril), a fleshy, false coating to 

 the seed, p. 45. 



Aristate, armed with a bristle-like point. 



Articulation, the joint at which a part sepa- 

 rates, as the petiole from the stem, p. 

 20. 



Ascending stem, one which arises obliquely, 

 p. 10. 



Assurgent, ascending. 



Awn, a bristle-like appendage. 



Axil, the angle on the upper side between 

 the leaf and stem. 



Axillary bud, a bud placed in the axil of a 

 leaf. Axillary buds often remain dor- 

 mant indefinitely ; when they begin to 

 grow they become terminal buds, i.e., 

 buds terminating growing branches, p. 

 10. 



Baccate, like a berry. 

 Barbate, bearded. 

 Bark, p. 15. 



Bast-cells, the long wood-cells of bark, p. 15. 

 Beaked, ending in a beak or narrow tip. 

 Bean, its structure and germinatiou, Figs. 

 1-5, p. 2. 



