BOTANICAL TERMS. 
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Ciliated (ciliatus) ; having fine hairs, re- 
sembling the eyelash, as in the leaves of Erica 
Tetralix. 
Clammy ; viscid, sticky, as the stems of 
catch-fly, or Mimulus glutinosus. 
Corneous (corneus) ; horny, of a hard and 
close texture, capable of being cut without 
difficulty, and not being brittle, as the albumen 
of many plants. 
Corticate (corticatus) ; coated, harder on 
the exterior than in the interior. 
Coriaceous (coriaceus, alutaceus) ; leathery, 
thick and tough like leather, as in the leaves 
of the common laurel and camellia. 
Crustaceous (crustaceus) ; hard, thin and 
brittle, as the coat of the seed of asparagus. 
Crystalline ; having the appearance of 
crystals. 
Dealbate (dealbatus) ; whitened, clothed 
with an opaque whitish powdery substance, 
more dense than when 'pulverulent. 
Dewy (roridus) ; covered with little trans- 
parent elevations, having the appearance of 
fine drops of dew. 
Diaphanous; transparent. 
Disermis ; smooth, without thorns. 
Duriuscula ; rather hard or rigid. 
Echinate (echinatus) ; bristly, furnished 
with numerous rigid hairs or straight prickles, 
as in the fruit of the sweet chestnut. 
Embossed (ccelatus) ; carved, projecting 
from the surface like the boss of a shield or 
target. 
Erinus; prickly, rough. 
Even (cequatus) ; the reverse of anything 
expressive of inequality of surface. 
Farinaceous (farinaceus) ; mealy, having 
the texture of flour in a mass, as the albumen 
of wheat. 
Farinose (farinosus) ; mealy, covered with 
a whitish scurfy substance, as in the leaves of 
Primula farinosa. 
Favose (favostis, alveolatus) ; honey- 
combed, pitted or hollowed out in the manner 
of a section of a honey-comb, as in the seeds of 
the poppy. 
Firm; hardish, tending to solidity. 
Floccose (jioccosus) ; clothed with dense 
hail's, which fall away in small tufts, as in 
some kinds of Verbascum. 
Foveate (foveatus) ; pitted, full of little 
pits or hollows ; the same as scrobicidate. 
Gelatinous (gelatinosus) ; having the tex- 
ture and appearance of jelly, as in JJlva. 
Glabrous (glaber, Icevis) ; smooth, destitute 
of hairiness or unevenness, as in many leaves. 
Glandular (glandidosits) ; covered with 
hairs bearing glands on their tips, as in the 
fruit of some roses. 
Glaucous (c/laucus) ; clothed with a fine 
bloom, giving a bluish cast to the surface it 
covers, as in the leaf of the cabbage. 
Glochidate (glockidatus) ; clothed with a 
peculiar form of hair which is split and 
hooked. 
Glutinose (glutinosus) ; covered with a 
viscid or glutinous exudation, as the leaves 
and stems of Mimulus glutinosus. 
Grooved (sidcatus) ; furrowed, channelled, 
marked with grooves or channels. 
Herbaceous (lierbaceus) ; thin, green and 
cellular, of the texture observed in the leaves 
of mosses. 
Hirsute (hirsutus) ; rough, hair}', clothed 
with hairs longer and more rigid than down. 
Hispid (hispidus) ; covered with long rigid 
hairs, as the flowers of Pimelia hispida. 
Hoary (incanus) ; densely covered with 
very short hairs, giving a whitish appearance 
to the surface from whence they proceed, as 
in some kinds of stock, and the leaves and- 
stem of Pimelia incana. 
Homogeneous ; of uniform composition or 
substance. 
Hyaline (hyalinus) ; having the appear- 
ance of crystals, transparent, glassy. 
Hystrix; bristly, like a porcupine. 
Iced (glacialis) ; covered with shiny par- 
ticles like icicles, having a frosted appearance. 
Imberbis; smooth, without a beard ; used 
in descriptions when any allied kinds have 
some parts bearded. 
Induviate (induviattis) ; covered with the 
withered remains of leaves, which being inarti- 
culate with the stem, do not fall off. 
Inermis ; smooth, unarmed, destitute of 
spines and prickles ; used to distinguish be- 
tween such kinds as are furnished with spines 
or prickles, and such as are not. 
Jubate (jtibatus) ; crested, furnished with 
a crest or mane. 
Lacunose (lacunosus) ; furnished with nu- 
merous large deep excavations or depressions. 
Lcevigate (Icevigatus, politus) ; polished, 
having the appearance of a polished surface, 
as in many seeds. 
Lanate (lanatus) ; woolly, covered with 
long dense curled matted hairs resembling 
wool, as in Verbascum Thapsus. 
Lax (laxus) ; loose, of a soft cellular tex- 
ture, appearing as if not in a state of cohesion, 
as the pith of most plants. 
Lentiginose (lentiginosus) ; dusty, covered 
with minute dots, as if dusted. 
Lepidoie (lepidotus, leprosus) ; leprous, 
clothed with lacerated peltate scales, as in the 
leaves of Eleagnus. 
Ligneous (lignosus, lignus) ; of the texture 
and substance of wood. 
Lineate (lineatus) ; lined, the same as 
striated. 
Loreus; leathery, the same as coriaceous. 
Lucid (lucidus) ; shining, glittering, as in 
many leaves. 
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