GLOSSARY 
OF UNFAMILIAR WORDS USED IN THE DESCRIPTION OF TIIE MEDICINAL 
SPECIES CONTAINED IN THIS TREATISE. 
Abnormal. Not according to the usual structure. 
Abortion. Not reaching the full development. 
Abortive. Arrested in development; sterile. 
Acaulescent. Without a stem. 
Accumbent (cotyledon). Edges turned against the radicle. 
Acerb. Sour and astringent. 
Achene. A dry and hard, 1 -celled, 1-seeded indebiscent fruit. (Com- 
positae.) 
Achlamydeous. Without calyx or corolla. 
Acicular. Needle-shaped. 
Acrogenous. Growing from the apex by a terminal bud or cell. 
Aculeate. Beset with prickles. 
Acuminate. Tapering at the end. 
Acute. Terminating with a sharp angle. 
Adnate. Attached to, or united to another part or organ, in part or fully. 
Adventive. Recently imported, and not sure of its permanency. 
^Estivation. The position of the parts of the perianth in the bud. 
Alate. Winged. 
Albumen. Any deposit of nutriment around the embryo. 
Albuminous. Having albumen. 
Alliaceous. Having the smell or taste of garlic. 
Alternate. Not opposite to each other from the same level. 
Alveolate. Having angular depressions like a honey-comb. 
Ament. A catkin ; a scaly unisexual spike. 
Amphitropus (ovule or seed). Half inverted and straight, with lateral 
hilum. 
Amplectant. Clasping the stem. 
Anastomosing. Connecting by cross-veins and forming a network. 
Anatropus (ovule). Inverted and straight, with the micropile next to 
hilum and the radicle inferior. 
Androgynous. Having both staminate and pistillate flowers. 
Androus. Having stamens (in composition). 
