TABLE 
OF 
BOTANICAL TERMS AND DEFINITIONS. 
Abrupt, (Abrupte) applied to leaves; when the extremity of the 
leaf is, as it were, cut off by a transverse line. 
Abruptly Pinnate, (Abrupte Pinna ta) applied to pinnate leaves, 
terminated neither with a leaflet nor a tendril. 
AcAULES, plants when destitute of stems, are so called. 
AcEROSE, {Acerosum) leaves, (needle shaped) linear, every where 
of an equal breadth, mostly acute and rigid. 
ACINACIFORME, cimeter shaped leaves, one edge of which is 
straight and thick, the other thin and curved. 
Acinus, each separate part of a compouud berry containing a seed: 
compound berries consist of many simple acini united 
together, as the raspberry, &c. &c. 
Acotyledonous, plants, whose embryos have no lobes, or seminal 
leaves. 
Aculeate, (Aculeata) applied to leaves armed with prickles. 
AcuLEUS, a prickle, a sharp projecting point, (arising from the 
bark only, having no connection with the wood.) 
Acuminate, {Acuminatum) very sharp pointed, ending in a taper 
or awl shaped point. 
Acute, (Acutum) sharp, ending in a point, (applied to leaves, &c.) 
Adnate, (Adnata) applied to leaves; signifies when a leaf adheres 
to the stem, or branch, by the surface or disk itself; 
applied to stipules when they are fixed to the petioles. 
Aggregate, flowers composed of many small florets, having a 
common undivided receptacle, the anthers separate and 
distant, the florets commonly stand on stalks, each having 
a single or double partial calyx. 
Aggregate Pedunculi, clustered flower stalks, many growing- 
together. 
Alienated, (Alienatum) when the first leaves of a plant give place 
to others very different from them, and from the natural 
habit of the genus. 
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