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INTRODUCTION TO BOTANY. 
Fleshy, carnosum. Euphorbiaceae. 
Horny, corneum. Tough, elastic, hard like horn. Palmse, 
Aristolochia, Rubiacese. 
Leathery, cartilaginous, coriaceum, cartilogineum , dense 
carnosum . Tough like leather, or a cartilage. Umbel- 
life rae. 
Transparent, pellucidum . Oryza saliva. 
Opake, opacum. Triticum. 
If Lobed, lolatum. 
Three-lobed, trilobcitum. Coccoloba, Lon tar us. 
Five-lobed, quinquelobnturn. Aquilicia. 
Creviced, rimosum . Having more or less deep incisions, 
into which folds of the seed-covers are inserted. Uvaria, 
Anona. 
% Large, magnum. Relatively to the embryo. Grami- 
neae, Umbelliferae, Ranunculaceae. 
Thick, crassum. Having a notable thickness. Graminese, 
Hydrophyllum. 
Thin, tenue. Labiatae, Rosaceae, Thymelese. 
% White, album. In most plants. 
Green, viride . Viscum album. 
% Hollow, cavum . Having another internal cavity be- 
sides that containing the embryo. Cocos, Myristica. 
Wrinkled, corrugatum , contortuplicatum. Folded to- 
gether in different senses along with the embryo. Convol- 
vulus. 
Hile-bearing, hiliferum. Bearing the hile. Abietideae, 
Cupressideae, Taxideae. 
Chorion. 
/I pulpy liquor which appears to form the whole substance of 
the kernel before its fecundation , and disappears before its 
maturity. 
Amnios. 
A transparent gelatinous or emulsive liquor that is not to be 
seen before fecundation , in which the embryo swims , and 
which appears to serve for its nourishment; the concrete re- 
siduum forming the perisperm. Cocoa. 
Naked, Amnios nudum. 
Enclosed, inclusum. Enclosed in a sac. 
Embryo. 
Proper seed, Heart of the seed, Corculum, Cor seminis. 
The rudiment of the new plant . PI. 15, fig. 22 d; pi. 18, 
fig. 20 f ; 22 a. 
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