GLOSSARY. 



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of the stem as to appeal to come 

 from the root; or when arising from 

 a rootstoek or other underground 

 organ. 



luiiinal, borne on the branches. 



Hauls, successive rows. 



Bay, in the Parsley Family, one of 

 the primary branches of an umbel; 

 ray in the Sunflower Family, one of 

 the marginal flowers bearing a ligu- 

 late corolla. 



Receptacle, in a flower, that portion of 

 the stem on which the sepals, petals, 

 stamens and pistils are borne; in 

 an inflorescence it is the axis or 

 abbreviated stem on which the 

 flowers are borne, as the axis of 

 the head in the Sunflower Family. 



Beflexed, turned downward or back- 

 ward. 



"Regular, the parts in a circle having 

 the same size and shape. 



Ecu iform, kidney-shaped. 



Bepand, with slightly uneven mar- 

 gin. 



Beticulated, with a network; netted. 



Eetrocurved, curving backward. 



Betrorse, turned or pressed backward. 



Betuse, with a broad shallow notch. 



Eevolute, rolled backward from each 

 side. 



Ehombic, quadrangular but the lateral 

 angles obtuse. 



Bib, a primary vein of a leaf. 



Eootstock, prostrate or underground 

 root-like stem, sending up from sea- 

 son to season herbaceous shoots 

 and bearing roots on the under side. 



Eostrate, with a beak or spur; nar- 

 rowed into a slender process; ros- 

 tellate, the diminutive. 



Emulate, said of radical leaves spread- 

 ing in a circle or rosette on the 

 ground. 



Eotate, wheel-shaped; spreading flat 

 or horizontally and circular in out- 

 line. 



Rudiment, an imperfectly developed 

 organ, a vestige. 



Bugose, having wrinkles or rugae; 

 rugulose, finely wrinkled; rugulae 

 fine wrinkles. 

 Buncinate, sharply incised with the 



teeth or incisions turned downward. 



Jin unci-, a slender prostrate stem root- 

 ing, more or Jess, at the nodes. 



Sagittate, shaped like an arrowhead. 



Salient, projecting prominently, in an 

 isolated manner, beyond the main 

 body or series. 



Samara, an imleliiseent winged fruit 

 like the key of a maple. 



Saprophyte, living upon dead organic 

 matter and thus destitute of chloro- 

 phyll. 



Scabrid, slightly scabrous. 



Scabrous, rough to the touch; scabru- 

 lose, minutely scabrous. 



Scale, a small thin body, not at all or 

 little green, commonly glabrous; in 

 Gramineae minute organs at the 

 base of the stamens. (See Lodicule.) 



Scape, a leafless flower-bearing stem 

 arising from the ground. 



Scarious, thin, dry and not green. 



Scorpoid, said of a 1-sided inflores- 

 cence which is circinately coiled in 

 the bud. 



Scrobiculate, marked with numerous 

 small depressions. 



Scurf, small, bran-like scales on the 

 stem or leaves. 



Secund, inserted on (or turned to) 

 one side of the stem. 



Sepal, a leaf or division of the calyx. 



Septal, relating to a septum. 



Septicidal, a capsule splitting be- 

 tween the partitions of the cells. 



Septum, a partition in an ovary or 

 fruit. 



Sericeous, silky with straight soft 

 hairs. 



Series, successive rows. 



Serrate, toothed or saw-like, with the 

 teeth turned forward or upward. 



Sessile leaf, leaf without a petiole 

 and the blade seated directly on the 

 stem; sessile ovary, one without a 

 stipe. 



Set, a cluster or collection of organs 

 of the same kind. 



Setaceous, bristle-like. 



Setose, beset with bristles; setulose, 

 the diminutive. 



Sheath, where the base of the blade 

 or expanded petiole completely en- 



