A GLOSSARY; 
EXPLAINING 
THE TECHNICAL TERMS 
IN 
BOTANY, 
IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER; 
By consulting which, any Book of Botany may easily be understood. 
Abbbeviatum perianthium, shortened, when the cup is shorter than the 
tube of the flower. 
Abortions flog, barren flowers, such as produce no fruit. 
Abruption folium yinnatum, winged leaves, ending without either foliole or 
cirrlius. 
Acaulis, without: stalk or stem. , , . ,. 
Acerosum folium, chaffy leaves, when they are linear and abiding, as in 
Pinos, Abie-, and Juniperus. 
Acicularis, needle shaped, as in scirpus aciculans. 
Acinacii'o me, falchion or scimitar-shaped, as m mesembry-anthcmiim 
A cini * th e° sin a 11 berries which compose the fruit of a mulberry or bramble. 
Acotyledones plants wliose seeds have no cotyledons or seminal leaves. 
Aculti prickles fixed in the rind or surface of the bark. 
Aculeatus cnulU, a stalk or stem furnished with prickles. 
Acuminatum /o/ium, a leaf ending in a point. 
Aciitnm folium, leaves terminating in an acute angle. _ 
Adnatuin folium, the disk of the leaf pressing close to the stem of the plant. 
Adpressa folk, the disk of the leaf pressed towards the stein. 
Adsceudens caulis, a stalk or branch inclining upwards. 
Ad verson, folium, w hen the sides of the lent are turned towards the south. 
Aggregates fios, an assemblage of flowers coming in clusters. 
Aggregate, an order of plants in the fragmenta raethodi naturahs of 
Ala,'" 1 wing, the side petals of papilionaceous blossom, or a membrane 
added to a seed, stalk, &c. ... , 
Alatus petiolus, when the foot-stalk of a leaf is winged with membranes 
Alburnum, the white substance that lies between the inner bark and the 
wood of trees. 
Al-fte flags, one of the seven families of plants. . 
A term rand folia, when they come out singly, and follow in gradual order 
Amentacea/an order of plaits in the fragmenta methodi naturalis of 
Liniia?us, bearing catkins. 
AmpSu.e C /o/i«, embracing the stalk when the base of the leaf tsi- 
A nceps cauiis^'dou ble-edg^d , when a stalk is compressed, and forms two 
A ndro^yt^p!anU n f earing male and female flowers on the same root. 
