GLOSSAHY. 
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Cuticle ; the external skin. 
Cylindrical ; nearly in the form of a cylinder. 
Cj/nie ; inflorescence formed of a terminal flower, beneath which 
are lateral branches each having a terminal flower and 
lateral branches again similarly dividing, and so on. A 
globose cyme has flowers so placed as to form a globose 
mass. A scorpioid cyme produces only the external branch 
of each pair, except the tirst. 
Cymose ; arranged in a cyme. 
Deciduous ; falling ofi". 
Declining ; straight, but pointing downwards. 
Decumbent ; T ing on the ground, but tending to rise at 
the end. 
Decurrent ; wher the limb of a leaf is ])rolonged down the 
stem below the point of attachment of the midrib. 
Decussate ; opposite leaves, but the successive pairs placed at 
right angles to each other. 
Deflexed ; curved downwards or towards the back. 
Dehiscence ; the mode in/which an organ opens. 
Deltoid ; fleshy with a triangular transverse section. 
Dentate ; with short equilateral triangular teeth. Wh^^n 
these are again dentate, the whole is doubly dentate, not 
bidentate, which means having two teeth. 
Denticidate ; finely dentate. 
Depressed ; when flattened vertically or at the top. 
Determinate inflorescence ends in a flower. 
Dicotyledonous ; with two opposite cotyledons. 
Didymous ; formed of two similar parts attaclied to each other 
by a small portion of their margin. \ 
Diffuse ; widely spreading. 
Digitate : fingered ; of several leaves all starting from the top 
of the petioles. 
Dicecicnis : with the sexes on difi'erent plants. 
Disk ; a fleshy space from which the stamens and pistils 
spring, or between them ; the central part of a head 
(capitulum). 
Dissepiments : vertical plates dividing an ovary into parts : septa. 
Distichous ; arranged above each other in two rows on 
opposite sides of an axis. 
Distinct ; separate from its neighbours. 
Divaricate ; spreading at an obtuse angle. 
Di verging : gradually separating. 
Dorsal ; attached to, or on the back. 
D rnpe ; a one-celled superior fruit, not bursting, fleshy exter- 
nally, stony within, containing one or two seeds. 
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