GLOSSARY 



Corm \ Bwollen fleshy base oi ., Btem 

 Corymb \ Rat-topped or convex open flower cluster 

 Creepine; Growing along the ground 

 Crenate Scalloped; with rounded, Bhallow teeth 

 Crenate-toothed With rounded teeth 



Cyme A flower cluster in which the terminal "r middle flower blossoms first; usually some- 

 what flat 



Deciduous Falling off al the close of the growing period 



Declined Bent dow n 



Decurrent Applied to leaf bases, running down the stem 



Dentate Toothed, with outwardly projecting teeth 



Denticulate With small teeth 



Depressed Vertically Rattened 



Dioecious Bearing pistils and stamens on different plants 



Disk \n enlargement of the a\is of a floweT around the base of the pistil; the group of 



tubular flowers in the Asteraceae 

 Dissected Cut "r divided into numerous segments 

 Divided Lobed to the base 



Entire Without lobes, divisions, <>r teeth 



Epigynous Applied to a flower with the pans upon the ovary 



Erect Standing upright 



Exserted Projecting beyond the surroundir g parts 



Fascicle \ dense cluster 

 Fascicled Borne in dense clusters 

 Fertile Bearing seeds, or bearing pollen 



Filament The -talk bearing the anther 

 Fleshy Soft, containing more or less - 

 Flower An axis bearing stamens or pistils or both; generally sepals and petals are 



ciated with these 

 Fruit A ripened ovary, sometimes that part of the axis which becomes fleshy as the seeds 



ripen 



Glabrous Without hairs 



Gland A secreting surface or structure: any small appendage or protuberance having the 



appearance of such an organ 

 Glandular With glands or gland-like 



Glaucous Covered with a bluish or white, tine, mealy substance, a bloom 

 Globose Spherical or nearly so 

 Glume The small scale of the spikelets of grasses and sedges 



Hastate Arrow-shaped but with the basal lobes diverging 



Head A dense cluster of sessile or nearly sessile flowers on a very short axis 



Herb A non-woody plant which dies down to the ground annually 



Herbaceous Of the nature of herbs 



Hirsute With somewhat coarse, -til I airs 



Hispid With bristly stiff hairs 



Hypogynous Applied to a flower with the other parts below the ovarv 



Included Not projecting beyond the surrounding] 



Indehiscent Applied to fruits that do not open or split to let out the seeds 

 Inferior applied to an organ situated below another one 



Inflorescence The portion of a plant bearing the flowers: mode of arrangement of flowers 

 Integument A protecting layer or coat, as the covering of a - 

 Internode The part of the stem between two successive node- 

 Involucre A group of leaves or scale-like leaves borne just underneath a flower or a 



cluster of flowers 

 Involucral (If an involucre 

 Irregular Applied to a flower in which the petals, or other parts, are unlike 



