GLOSSARY 65 



Compound leaf One divided into separate leafli 



Cone An elongated axis bearing stamens or thickened scales with naked ovules; the 



Bower and fruit of conifers 

 Convolute Rolled up lengthw 

 Cordate Heart-shaped 

 Corm A swollen fleshy base of a stem 

 Corymb A flat-topped or convex open flower cluster 

 Creeping Growing along the ground 

 Crenate Scalloped; with rounded, shallow teeth 

 Crenate-toothed With rounded teeth 

 Cyme A flower cluster in which the terminal or middle flower blossoms first; usually 



somewhal Bat 



Deciduous Falling off at the close of the growing period 



Declined Bent down 



Decurrent Applied to leaf bases, running down the stem 



Dentate Toothed, with outwardly projecting teeth 



Denticulate With small teeth 



Depressed Vertically flattened 



Dioecious Bearing pistils and stamens on different plants 



Disk An enlargement of the axis of a (lower around the base of the pistil; the j^roup 



of tubular flowers in the A-tcraceae 

 Dissected Cut or divided into numerous segments 

 Divided Lobed to the base 



Entire Without lobes, divisions, or teeth 



Epigyoous Applied to a flower with the parts upon the ovary 



Erect Standing upright 



Exserted Projecting beyond the surrounding parts 



Fascicle A dense cluster 



Fascicled Borne in dense clusters 



Fertile Bearing seeds, or bearing pollen 



Filament The stalk bearing the anther 



Fleshy Soft, containing more or less sap 



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



ciated with these 

 Fruit A ripened ovary, sometime- 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, fine, 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, stiff hairs 



Hispid With bristly stiff hairs 



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



Included Not projecting beyond the surrounding parts 



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



Inferior Applied to an organ situated below another one 



