172 THE FLORIST AND 



Frutex. A shrub with perennial branches, but no main stem. 



Glands. Portions of firm cellular tissue situated on the leaves and stems 

 of plants, for the purposes of exhalation and secretion. 



Membrane. Thin substance which forms the walls and sides of the 

 cellular tissue. 



Nectary. The part of a flower that secretes honey. 



Parasite. Applied to plants that grow upon other plants and abstract 

 nourishment from them, as the dodder. 



Phcenogamous. Applied to plants which bear visible flowers. 



Ramenta. Scales sometimes found on young shoots. 



Stipules. Small leaf-like appendages, situated at the base of the true* 

 leaves of many plants. 



Stomates. Minute passages through the skin. 



Tendrils. Thread-like appendages by which some climbing plants sup- 

 port themselves twining around objects. 



Thorns. Indurated abortive buds, with sharp points, connected with the 

 woody tissue. 



Tissue. Substances of which plants are composed. There are distinct 

 kinds, cellular, vascular, and woody tissue. 



Vascular tissue, Are simple membranous tubes which are the vessels of 

 plants. 



Verucco2. "Warts or sessile glands produced on the surface of some plants, 

 giving it a peculiar kind of roughness, which condition is called scabrous. 



Woody tissue [lignin). The solid parts of plants, consisting of membran- 

 ous tubes lying in bundles, more or less compactly. It is the part which 

 gives durability and stiffness to the vegetable fabric. 



TERMS PRINCIPALLY APPLIED TO THE ROOTS OF PLANTS. 



Bulbous. A term often erroneously applied. A bulb is a bud of a pecu- 

 liar kind, the fibres that issue from the under side of bulbs are the true 

 roots ; bulbs sometimes grow on stems. 



Fibres. The small thread-like parts or minute subdivisions of the roots. 

 The term fibrous is applied to roots when divided into a number of these 

 thread-like filaments, or fibres ; as examples, the Kalmia, Rhododendron, 

 and Azalea are familiar. 



Fusiform. Spindle-shaped, thick at top, and tapering downward as in 

 the carrot. 



Fasciculated. Applied to tubercular roots when they grow in clusters. 



