Is. I 



GLOSSARY 



hues; dilatation, that which is di- 

 lated. 

 Dioecious, with Btamena and pistils in 

 different flowers on different plants. 



Discoid, disk like; without ray-flow- 

 ers. 



Disk, a development of the receptacle 

 al or around the base of the ovary; 

 in Compositae, the tubular corollas 

 of the receptacle as distinct from 

 the ray. 



Dissected, several times cleft into 

 small segments. 



Distichous, in 2 ranks or rows. 



Distinct, parts in the same circle not 

 united; as "stamens distinct," 

 separate from each other. 



Divaricate, widely divergent. 



Divided, cleft about to the base, or 

 to midrib. 



Dorsal, relating to or borne along the 

 back. 



Emarginate, with a sharp notch at 

 apex. 



Emersed, growing up out of or raised 

 above the water. 



Endosperm, starch or other reserve 

 food stored with the embryo in the 

 seed. 



Entire, margin not toothed or in- 

 dented. 



Equilateral, equal sided, or with the 

 same number of parts on a side; 

 a pinnate leaf is equilateral when 

 it has the same number of leaflets 

 on each side of the rachis. 



Equitant, astride, as if riding, like 

 the leaves of Iris. 



Erose, gnawed on the edge; erosulate, 

 the diminutive. 



Exsertcd, protruding beyond the sur- 

 rounding organ; exserted stamens 

 protrude beyond the corolla; an ex- 

 Berted Corolla protrudes beyond the 



calyx. 

 Exstipulate, without stipules. 

 Extrorsi . turned outward. 

 Filial, . Bickle-shaped. 



fascicle, a elose cluster or bundle of 



roots. -i' in--, leaves or flow i 

 / . •., it b honey combed Burface. 



/■'. estrate, with transparent areas or 



window like openings. 



Fertile flower, one containing a pis- 

 til capable of producing fruit with 

 good seed; fertile stamen, the anther 

 containing pollen. 



Ful or fid us, terminations meaning 

 cleft or lobed; 3-fid means 3-cleft. 



/•' da mt nt, a thread, in case of a sta- 

 men the stalk supporting the anther. 



Filiform, thread-like. 



Fimbriate, fringed; fimbrillate, the 

 diminutive. 



Fistulous, hollow. 



Flaht Mate, fan-shaped. 



Flexuous, more or less zigzag. 



Floccose, bearing locks or tufts of 

 hair or wool. 



Foliaceous, leaf -like. 



Foliolate, having leaflets; 3-foliolate, 

 with 3 leaflets, etc. 



Follicle, a dehiscent seed-vessel derived 

 from a single carpel, as a pod of the 

 Larkspur. 



Free, not united to another organ, 

 especially when one circle of the 

 flower is not united to another 

 circle. 



Fruit, the matured or ripened ovary 

 with all its appendages or acces- 

 sory parts as well as contents. 



Fruticose, relating to a shrub; 

 shrubby. 



Fruticulose, diminutive of fruticose; 

 relating to a little shrub, as Bryan- 

 thus brewer i. 



Fugacious, very promptly falling off 

 or lasting but a short time. 



FulvOUS, tawny. 



cuius, the stalk on which the 

 ovule is borne in the ovary. 



form, thickest at or above or be- 

 low the middle and tapering more or 

 less to each end. 



Gffllea, the long or helmet-like upper 

 lip in the Mint and Figwort fami- 

 lies ; gait at, . having a gal. a. 



Geminate, twin, in pairs, two side 

 by side. 



Geniculate, bent abruptly, like a knee. 



GibbOUS, swollen or distended on one 



Bide. 

 Glabrate, somewhat glabrous or becom- 

 ing glabrous. 



