GLOSSARY. 



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Diffuse ; loosely sprcaclinur. 

 Digitate ; witli five or mor.- leiilli-ts. 

 3)iinorpliousi ; ol two ibi nis. 

 ])i!isc<U'(i ; divided into uiiiiiy lo'ut:?. 

 Dis^ei>inu'iu ; 11. 

 Dit'iichous ; two-ranked, placed 



opposite sides of the axis. 

 Divaiicate ; widely spreading. 

 Dorsal ; T. 



Downy ; with short hairs. 

 Diiraii.en ; hardwood. 



Eared; auriculated. 



Eciiinate ; with rigid prickles. 



Et!Vte ; sterile, exhausted. 



Elaters ; spiral elastic threads accompa- 

 nying certain spores. 



Elongated ; lengtliened. 



Emargiiiate ; notched at the apes.- 



Eiiiers^ed ; raised out of water. 



Eiidoclirome ; tiie coloring-matter of 

 p!ant.s. 



Endopleiira ; inner covering or integu- 

 ment. 



Eiiiire ; cvcn-odgod. 

 ■, Ephemeral ; last iig but a day. | 



\ Epigynoiis ; ni)"n the ovary. | 



Epipetalous ; on the petals. | 



Epiphytes; air plants. i 



Episperm ; the skin of the seed. 



Equilateral ; equal-sided. 



Eqiiitaiit : two leaves, with their bases } 

 clasped one Vvithin the other, and their I 

 side- facing, as in the Ins. 



Erose ; margins scalloped iiregnlaily. 



Exustome ; the opening of the outer 

 coat of the seed. 



Ex^erted ; projecting be5^ond. 



Exstipulate : without stipules. 



Exirorse ; lurued outward. 



Faicula ; starch. 



Faleaie ; scyiho-shapcd, curved. 

 False dissepiment ; 12. 

 Farinaceous ; ilour- ike in texture. 

 Farinoiis ; mealy on the surface, 

 pascicied ; collected in a cluster. 

 Fastigiatc ; rising to the tame level. 

 Favose ; honey-combed. 

 Ferruginous ; iron-colored. 

 Filamentose ; composed of, or bearing 



threads. 

 Filiform ; thread-like. 

 Fimbriate ; margin cut into a fringe. 

 Fi^tular ; iioUow like an onion leaf. 

 Flabelliform ; fan-shaped. 

 Flatrelliform ; whip-shaped, long and 



supple. 

 Flexuous ; 1 ent outward and inward, 



zigzag. 

 Floccose ; bearing tufts of deciduous 



hairs. 

 Foliaceous ; leaf-like. 

 Foliolate ; bearing leaflets. 

 Frutex, or Frutescent ; woody, as Crape 



Myrtle, or Lilac. 

 Fu'/accous ; soon disappearing. 

 Fidvous ; tawny. 

 Funiculus ; a little royv. 



I Furcate ; forked. 

 I Ituluruceous ; scurfy. 

 I I'uscons ; grayish or blackish brown. 

 Fusiform ; spind.c-.-haped. 



Galea, Galcate; resembling a shield. 



Gamopetalous; i)etals uniud. 



Gamophyllous; sepals united. 



(ieminate ; by pairs. 



Gemmation ; staie «.r budding. 



Genicidate ; bent, as the kuee. 



Gibbous ; pulled out. 



Glabrous ; smooth. 



Gladiate ; sword-shaped. 



Glands ; small knobs or excrescences. 



Gkiucous; covered with minute wintish 



powder. 

 Glomerate ; collected into close heads. 

 Glnmaceous: bearing glumes. 

 Glumes ; scale-like bracts of Grasses and 



Granular; covered with grains. 

 Gymnobase; a process of the torus, on 



and around which the carpels arc 



suspended. 

 Gymiioecinm; 2. 



Gymnos (Greek prefix) ; naked. 

 Gymnospermous ; naked seeds, 23. 

 Gynopiiore ; a produced torus, bearing 

 ; the ovary on its summit. 

 ; Gyrous; strongly bent to and fro. 



Habit ; the general appearance of c 



l)iant. 

 Habitat : native situation of a plant. 

 Hairy: lurnished with hairs. 

 Halved ; one half apparently deficient. 

 Hastate or Halbert-shaped ; dilated at 



I he base into two spreading lobes. 

 Heari-sbaped ; ovate, with a sinus at 



t!ie base. 

 Hermaphrodite ; stamens and pistils 



bo:h present. 

 Heterocephalous ; heads of two sorts in 



the same plant, some staminate and 



some pistillate flowers. 

 Heterogamous ; flowers of two sorts in 



»hc same head. 

 Hilum; 22. 



Hirsute ; beset with coarse hairs. 

 Hisi)id : with rigifl hairs. 

 Hoary; grayish white. 

 Hyaline ; thin and nearly transparent. 

 Hybrid; a cross between two species. 

 Hyperborean ; inhabiting northern re- 

 gions. 

 Hypocraleriform ; ealver-form. 



Icosandrous ; more than ten stamens. 



Incised ; cut like a gash. 



Included ; inclosed within. 



Incrassate; thickened. 



Incumbent; leaning upon. 40. 



Induplicate; folded inward. 



Ir.dusium ; the shield of the sorus of 



the fern. 

 Inferior ovary ; 15. 

 Inflated ; as if blown u-o. 

 Infra-axillary ; belov/ the axil. 



