GLOSSARY. 



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Art state, furnished with an arista 

 or awn, like the beard or 

 bristle of Barley. 



Articulated, jointed or furnished 

 with joints, where the stem 

 separates or is inclined to do so. 



Ascending, rising gradually up- 

 wards. 



Auriculate, with ear-like lobes at 

 the base. 



Awn, bristle or beard of Barley. 



Awned, provided with a Barley- 

 like bristle. 



Axil, the angle between a leaf 

 and stern. 



Axile placenta, a placenta borne 

 on the axis of the ovary or 

 fruit. 



Axillary, borne or occurring in 

 an axil. 



Axis, the stem or longitudinal or 

 central support on which parts 

 or organs are arranged; a cen- 

 tral line. 



Baccate, of the nature of a berry, 

 besrry-lifce or pulpy. 



Banner, the upper petal in a 

 papilionaceous, or pea, flower. 



Barbellaie, bearing minute barb- 

 like protuberances. 



Bay Megion, the area embraced 

 by the counties bordering on 

 San Francisco, San Pablo and 

 Suisun Bays. 



Berry, a fleshy indehiscent fruit, 

 formed from a single superior 

 or inferior ovary. 



BI-, a prefix to Latin words, 

 two or twice. 



Bifid, 2-cleft to the middle or 

 thereabouts. 



Bilabiate, a synsepalous calyx 

 or sympetalous corolla cleft 

 into two divisions: an upper 

 (superior or posterior) lip; and 

 a lower (inferior or anterior) 

 lip; 2-lipped as the corolla of 

 Sage or of Mimulus. 



Bipinnate, twice pinnate. 



Bladdery, thin and inflated. 



Blade, the flat expanded portion 

 of a leaf; said also of the broad 

 portion of a petal, especially 

 when it possesses a petiole-like 

 base or claw. 



Bloom, said when leaves and 

 fruit are whitened with a fine 

 powder or dust. 



Bract, the modified leaves of a 

 flower-cluster; in Graminea?, the 

 modified leaves subtending a 

 spikelet; leafy-bracted, in Com- 

 posite, with accessory or foliose 

 bracts to the head outside the 

 involucre. 



Bracteal, of the nature of a 

 bract. 



Braeteate, possessing or bearing 

 bracts. 



Braetlet, the small modified leaf 

 subtending a flower or inserted 

 on the pedicel; in Gramine* 

 the lower of the two modified 

 leaves subtending an individ- 

 ual flower. 



Caducous, dropping off very early 

 as compared with other parts; 

 the calyx in the California 

 Poppy falls when the flower 

 opens. 



Ccespitose, said of stems when 

 borne on the same stock In a 

 close tuft. 



Calicine, simulating a calyx or 

 whorl of sepals. 



Calyculate, said of the short 

 bracts at the base of the proper 

 bracts of the involucre in Com- 

 posita 1 imitating an exterior in- 

 volucre. 



Calyx, the outer, usually green, 



whorl of the flower. 

 Canipanulate, bell-shaped. 

 Qanescent, grayish white or hoary, 



the surface covered with fine 



white hairs. 

 Capillary, like a hair. 



