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GLOSSARY OP BOTANICAL TERMS. 
flyma, that runs into long fastigiate peduncles, proceeding from the same 
universal centre, but with irregular partial ones. 
Cymosns fios, see Cyma. 
Cymosae, an order of the plants in the fragmenta methodi naturalis of 
L imams. 
Da-ad, -drum folium, a leaf whose texture is remaikably beautiful and ex- 
quisitely wrought 
Debilis mulis, feeble stalk. 
Decagyni.i, ten females, the fifth order in the tenth class; flowers that 
have ten styli. 
Decundria, ten males, the tenth class of Linmeus. 
Decaphyllus cuhjx, a calyx consisting often leaves. 
Decidimm folium, leaves that fail off in winter. 
Declinatns caulk, a stalk bending toward the earth. 
Deconiposita folia, when a petiole once divided connects many folioles. 
Decnmbens, to lie down. 
Decnrrcns folium , running down, when the base of a sessile leaf extends 
itself downwards along the stem, beyoud the proper base or termination 
of the leaf. * 
Decursive folium penatum, when the bases of the foliole are continued 
along the sides of the petiolus. 
Decussata folia, to divide, when leaves grow in pairs, and opposite, each 
pair being opposite alternately. 
Deflexus ramus, a branch bent a little downwards. 
Deflorcta stamina, having shed or discharged the farina fecundans. 
lletbliatio, the time in autumn when the plants shed their leaves. 
Deltoidcs/idium, a leaf formed like the Greek delta, as in the mesembry- 
authemiim. 
Demersum folium, in aquatic plants, leaves sunk below the surface of the 
water. 
Dendroides svrculus, shrub-like, a subdivision of the surculous in the genus 
hypnum. 
Dentation folium, leaves having horizontal points of the same consistence of 
the leaf, and standing at a ittlc distance from each other. 
Dehtidatsc, to be stripped naked, an order of plants in the fragmenta me- 
thodi naturalis of Linneeus. 
Dependt-ns folium, to hang down, leaves pointing towards the ground. 
Deprcssuni folium, pressed down when the sides rise higher than the disk. 
Diadelphia, two brotherhoods, the seventeenth class in the sexual system. 
Diandna, two males, the second class in the sexual system. 
Dichotonms caulis, forked stalks, when the divisions come by two and two. 
Dicotyledoues, when the seeds have two cotyledons that are the placenta 
of the embryo plant, and afterwards the seed leaves. 
Didyma antlura, twins, when anthcra come by twos on each filament. 
Didynamia, the superiority of two, the fourteenth class in the sexual 
system. 
Dinbrmia/olia, different forms, when leaves on the same plant come of 
different forms. 
Diffuses caulis, when the branches of the stalk spread different ways. 
Digitatum folium, fingered, when the apex of a petiole connects many 
folioles. 
Digynia, two females, the second order in each of the first thirteen classes 
except the ninth. 
Dimidiatum, halved. 
Dioccia, the twenty-second class in the sexual system. 
Diepetala corolla, flowers consisting of tw-o petals, as in circsea, and com 
melina. 
Diphyllus calyx, a calyx consisting of two leaves, as in the papaver, and 
fnmaria. 
Discus, a disk, the middle part of a radiate compound flow er. 
Disperma, plants producing their seeds by twos, as in the mnbellatm. 
I)i9sectnin,/dm»i, leaves cut into lasiwia, or divisions. 
