GLOSSARY. 
Achene. A dry one seeded fruit. 
Acrid. Sharp, sour with unpleasant taste. 
Acuminate. Tapering into a long point. 
Acute. Sharp pointed. 
Aerial. Growing in the air. 
Ament. <A spike of flowers all of one sex falling in one piece. 
Anther. The enlarged portion of the stamen containing pollen. 
Apex. Tip or upper end. 
‘Appendaged. With projections. 
Appressed. Lying against or close to another part. 
Aromatic. Fragrant, spicy. 
Ascending. Growing obliquely upward. 
Astringent. Drawing together, hence puckering. 
Awl-shaped. Shaped somewhat like a spine. 
Axil. The angle between the upper side of the leaf petiole and the stem. 
Agillary. Borne in the axil of a leaf. 
Axis. The part of stem or branch which bears foliage leaves, flowers 
or flower parts. 
Bark. The rind or outer covering of the stem. 
Basal. At the base or springing from it. 
Bipinnate. Doubly or twice pinnate. 
Blade. The flat expanded portion of the leaf. 
Bract. A more or less modified leaf found below a flower cluster. 
Branch. A secondary division of a trunk. 
Branchlet. One of the ultimate divisions of a branch. 
Bud. An undeveloped shoot. 
Bud-scales. Reduced leaves which cover the bud. 
Calyx. The green saucer shaped outer part of the flower. 
Capsule. A dry dehiscent fruit consisting of two or more carpels. 
Carpel. A simple pistil or an element of a compound pistil. 
Catkin. Same as ament. 
Compound. Two or more similar parts united. 
Compound leaf. Consisting of two or more leaflets borne on one stalk. 
Cone. An elongated axis bearing scales which overlap each other. 
Conifer. Bearing cones. 
Constricted. Narrowed. 
Cordate. Heart-shaped. 
Corolla. The inner usually colored leaves of the flowers. 
Corymb. A flat topped flower cluster in which the flowers open from 
the outside inward. 
Crenate. Scalloped. 
Cuneate. Wedge-shaped. 
Cyme. A flat topped flower cluster blooming from the apex or middle 
first. 
Deciduous. Falling off, as leaves in autumn. 
