BOTANICAL TERMS. 
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^vertical partitions which divide the cells of 
the ovary into distinct compartments. 
Drupe (drupa) ; a simple one or two- 
seeded indehiscent fruit, fleshy externally and 
bony within, as the peach, the plum, &c. 
Elaterium ; synonyme of regma. 
Elaters; loose spiral fibres found among 
the sporules of some cellular plants. 
Embryo ; the fleshy body, forming the 
rudiment of the future plant, and occupying 
the interior part of the seed ; it consists of 
three parts, iheradicle, cotyledon, and plumule. 
Endocarp (endocarpium) ; the inner coat 
or shell of a fruit, enclosing the seed ; the 
stone of a peach is its endocarp. 
Endopleura ; the inner coat of seeds. 
Endospermium ; synonyme of albumen. 
Endostome ; an inner integument enclos- 
ing the ovule. 
Epicarp (epicarpium) ; the external inte- 
gument or skin of a fruit ; the skin of a peach 
is its epicarp. 
Episperma; same as testa. 
Erythrostomum ; synonyme of etcerio. 
Etcerio ; an aggregate fruit, with the 
ovaria elevated above the calyx, and the peri- 
carps distinct ; sometimes they are dry upon 
a dry receptacle, as in the ranunculus ; some- 
times dry upon a fleshy receptacle, as in the 
strawberry; sometimes fleshy upon a dry re- 
ceptacle, as in the raspberry. 
Exostome ; an outer integument enclosing 
the ovule. 
Flocci ; woolly filaments found mixed with 
the sporules of many fungi. 
Follicle (fclliculus) ; a simple, many-seeded, 
superior, dehiscent, one-valved fruit : the 
paeony is an example, its seeds being borne in 
what are termed follicles. 
Foramen ; a perforation or passage through 
the twofold sac or integument of an ovule ; 
it is always to be found facing the radicle. 
Funiculus; the cord or thread by which 
the ovules are attached to the placenta ; the 
umbilical cord. 
Galbidus ; a seed-vessel differing from the 
cone only in being round and having the 
heads of the carpels much enlarged, as in the 
juniper. 
Gemmule ; same as plumule. 
Germen ; an old name for the ovary, which 
latter term has superseded it. 
Germination ; the act or operation of the 
vital energies of the organs of the seed, by 
which the embryo is extricated from its en- 
velopes and converted into a plant. 
Glans ; a compound inferior, indehiscent, 
one-celled fruit, with a dry pericarp sur- 
rounded by a cupulate involucre, as in the 
acorn : the seeds of the beech and the sweet 
chestnut are glans. 
Globuli, glomemdi; same as soredia. 
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Gongyli; the granules contained in the 
shield of a lichen ; also round hard bodies 
which separate from the parent and produce 
new individuals in the sea-weed tribe. 
Gonophore ; a peculiar form of the recep- 
tacle, or that part to which the carpels are fixed. 
Gousse ; synonyme of legumen. 
Gynobase {gynobasis) ; a fleshy receptacle, 
bearing a single row of separate fruit. 
Gynophore ; a lengthened receptacle, bear- 
ing the petals, stamens, and pistils (and con- 
sequently the ovary), but not the calyx ; as in 
the passion-flower. 
Gyrus, gyroma ; a thickened elastic ring, 
partially surrounding the cellular membrane 
forming the thecae, or capsule of ferns, 
Ilemigyrus ; synonyme offollicidus. 
Ilesperidium ; a compound superior inde- 
hiscent fruit, with the pericarp fleshy, and 
the sarcocarp separable, as in the orange. 
Hilofere ; a term applied to the endopleura 
or internal integument of the seed. 
Hilum; the part by which the seed is 
attached to the placenta ; or, by some it is 
defined as the mark or scar left upon the 
surface of the seed by the natural fracture of 
the umbilical cord. 
Incumbent ; applied to the cotyledons when 
folded up in the seed with their back upon 
the radicle. 
Indehiscent ; applied to fruits in which the 
pericarp continues perfectly closed, and does 
not separate spontaneously. 
Indusium ; a thin membranaceous integu- 
ment covering the thecse or groups of capsules 
of some, ferns. 
Inferior; this term is applied to a fruit 
when the pericarp adheres to the calyx, or 
originates below it ; the apple and the currant 
are inferior fruits. 
Legumen ; a simple, two-valved, many- 
seeded fruit, dehiscent by a suture along both 
its face and back, and bearing its seeds on 
each margin of the ventral suture, as the pea 
and the bean. 
Loculicidal ; a mode of dehiscence in which 
the dissepiments form the middle of each 
valve, as in the lilac. 
Lomentum ; a simple, many-seeded fruit, 
differing from the legumen in being contracted 
in the spaces between each seed, and then 
separating into distinct pieces : ornithopus is 
an example. 
Lorica; same as testa. 
Melonidium ; synonyme of pomum. 
JMicrobasis ; synonyme of carcerulus. 
Micropyle ; in the ripe seed this term is 
applied to the foramen. 
Mitriform. ; applied to the calyptra of 
mosses, when separated equally at the base, 
so as to hang regularly over the thecse. 
Nauca; a term applied to seeds in which the 
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