GLOSSARY. 
Acuminate. Having a prolonged point, gradually attenuated. 
Adnate. Adhering to laterally. 
Albumen. A substance which in its perfect and solid state is ground into flour. 
Anthers. The portion of the male part of a flower which contains the pollen or 
particles of dust that, by contact with the stigma, fertilize the ovary. 
Antitr opous. A seed is so called when the embryo in it is inverted. 
Apetaloid. Having no appearance of petals. 
Apiculate. Having a prolonged slender point. 
Assurgent. Having the ends rising upwards from a horizontal posture. 
Auriculate. Having projections like ears. 
Articulate. Jointed. 
Axillary. Growing out of the axil or angle between the base of a leaf, or its 
petiole, and the stalk or branch on which it grows. 
Ax/s. The central column in a fruit which supports the style, and connects it 
with the footstalk. 
Bilabiate. Having the form of two distinct lips, the base of the segments being 
united in two separate parcels. 
Bracteate. Furnished with bractes. 
Bracte. An appendage to the inflorescence, sometimes leaf-like, sometimes fili- 
form, from the axil of which a flower-bud usually proceeds. There is no 
perfect distinction between bractes and the valves of an involucre or spathe. 
A bracte is properly with respect to a flower, that which a stipule is with re- 
spect to a leaf. 
Calycine. Belonging to, or having the office or semblance of, a calyx. 
Calyx. The outer leaf-like envelope of a flower. 
Campanulute. Bell-shaped. 
Capitulate. Having the flowers in a crowded head. 
Caulescent. Having a leaf-bearing or articulate stalk. 
Centrifugal inflorescence. Beginning to flower in the centre of the umbel. 
Centripetal inflorescence. Beginning to flower at the outside of the umbel. 
Chalaza. A marked point in a seed, indicating the position of the cotyledon or 
cotyledons, remote from the foramen through which the radicle usually issues. 
Ciliated. Edged with hairs like the eyelids. 
Clavate. Club-shaped. 
Conniving. Closing inwards. 
Coroll. The inner envelope of a flower, usually more ornamental than the calyx. 
Crenate. Notched. 
Cremilate. Slightly notched. 
Cumulate. Heaped one on the other. 
Cuneate. Wedge-shaped. 
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