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GLOSSARY. 
Decurrent. Applied to the filaments, when their course down the tube is visible 
below the point of their insertion. 
Dehiscent. Gaping. 
Dentate. Having prominences like teeth. 
Denticulate. Having prominences like small teeth. 
Depauperated. Having some material part wanting, or defective. 
Disk. The superior surface of the germen round the base of the style. The 
word has elsewhere had a more extensive and vague application, including the 
cup or nectary. 
Dissepiments. The lateral partitions of the cells of the germen and fruit. 
Emarginate. Having the margin uneven, like the edge of a wound just cleansed 
out or dressed ; an expression taken from surgery. 
Embryo. The organized body within the seed, consisting of the cotyledons or 
undeveloped leaves, the ascending plumule, the descending radicle, and the 
neck which connects the cotyledon or cotyledons with the radicle. 
Ensiform. Sword-shaped. 
Epigynous. Having the position of the stamens above the future seed-vessels, 
and consequently thegermen below the perianth. 
Epiphytes. Plants that grow upon other plants. 
Falcate. Sickle-shaped. 
Filaments. That part of the stamen which supports the anther, so called because 
its form is most frequently thread-like. 
Filiform. Having the form of a thread. 
Fimbriated. Terminating in fringe-like processes. 
Foramen. A minute aperture in the seed, through which the embryo is fertilized 
and the radicle usually issues. 
Faucial. Situated on the throat or mouth of the tube of the perianth. 
Germen. The future fruit before the decay of the perianth. 
Glabrous. Perfectly smooth. 
Glumaceovs. Having scales instead of calyx or corolla. 
Gynundrous. Having the style consolidated with the stamens. 
Heierotropous. Having the position of the embryo in the seed oblique. 
Hexandrous. Having six stamens. 
Hexapetaloid. Having the semblance of six petals. 
Hilum. Tbe scar on a seed where it had been attached to the umbilical chord, 
including the umbilicus and the space between it and the foramen, if not the 
foramen itself. 
Hypogynous. Having the position of the stamens below the ovary, consequently 
the germen within the perianth. 
Imbricating . Overlapping like tiles on a roof. 
Inarticulate. Not jointed. 
Incurved. Bent forwards, or down. 
Involucre. An envelope to an inflorescence, not on the summit of an umbellate 
inarticulate scape. 
Involucrate. Having an involucre. 
Lanceolate. Shaped like a lance-head, that is, slenderer than ovate. 
Limb. The part of a perianth, or coroll, which is not tubular. 
Linear. Having the margins parallel and not distant. 
Lorate. Shaped like a thong, that is prolonged with parallel margins. 
Monadelphous Having the base of the stamens united. 
Obovatc. Egg-shaped reversed, the base narrowest. 
Opercle. The persistent base of a style, forming a prominent point to an ovary 
in an epigynous flower. 
