204 GLOSSARY OF TEEMS AND INDEX TO PART I 



Bark, 12. 



Bases of leaves, 21. 



Berry. Used in this work to include any soft, juicy fruit with sev- 

 eral (at least more than one), readily separated seeds buried in the 

 mass, 27. 



Blpinnate. Twice-pinnate, 20. 



Bladdery. Swollen out and filled with air. 



Blade. The thin, spreading portion, as of a leaf, 19. 



Bract. A more or less modified leaf belonging to a flower or fruit ; 

 usually a small leaf in the axil of which the separate flower of a 

 cluster grows, 28. 



Branch. A shoot or stem of a plant, 11. 



Branching, general plan of, 29. 



Branchlet. A small branch. 



Bristle-pointed. Ending in a stiff, roundish hair, 22. 



Bud. Undeveloped branch or flower, 30 ; forms of, 32 ; bud-scales, 31. 



Bur. Rough-prickly covering of the seeds or fruit, 27. 



Bush. A shrub, 11. 



Calyx. The outer leafy part of a flower, 24. 



Cancscent. With a silvery appearance, 23. 



Capsule. A dry, pod-like fruit which has either more than one 

 cell, or, if of one cell, not such a pod as that of the pea with the 

 seeds fastened on one side on a single line, 28. 



Carpel. That part of a fruit which is formed of a simple pistil, or 

 one member of a compound pistil ; often shown by a single seed- 

 bearing line or part. A fruit has as many carpels as it has seed- 

 bearing lines on its outer walls, or as it had stigmas when it was a 

 pistil, or as it had leaves at its origin. 



Catkin. A scaly, usually slender and pendent cluster of flowers, 

 26, 28. 



Ciliate. Fringed with hairs along its edge. 

 . Cleft. Cut to about the middle, 22. 



Cluster. Any grouping of flowers or fruit on a plant, so that more 

 than one is found in the axil of a leaf, or at the end of a stem, 26. 



Complete. Having all the parts belonging to an organ ; a complete 

 leaf has blade, leafstalk, and stipules, 19; a complete flower has 

 calyx, corolla, stamen, and pistil, 24. 



Compound. Composed of more than one similar part united into a 

 whole ; a compound tea/ has more than one blade, 19. 



Conduplicate. Folded on itself lengthwise, 33. 



Cone. A hard, scaly fruit, as that of a pine-ti-ee, 28. 



Conical. With a circular base and sloping sides gradually tapering 

 to a point ; more slender than pyramidal. 



