OF BOTANICAL TERMS. 
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Dentate: toothed; the teeth pointing outwards 
but not forwards, 49. 
Denticulate : toothed with minute teeth. 
Depressed : flattened from above. 
Diadelphous Stamens : united by their filaments 
in two sets, 73. 
Dicotyledonous, Dicotyledonous Plants, 22, 97. 
Diffuse: loosely and widely spreading. 
Digestion in plants, 87. 
Digitate, 51. 
Dioecious Flowers, 68. 
Dissected : cut into fine divisions. 
Distinct: of separate pieces, unconnected with 
each other, 71, 73. 
Divided: cut through or nearly so, 50. 
Divisions, 49. 
Double Flowers (so called), 69. 
Downy: clothed with soft and short hairs. 
Drupe: a stone-fruit, 78. 
Drupaceous: like a drupe. 
Dry Fruits, 77, 78. 
Eared : bearing ear-like projections, or auricles, 
at the base, on one or both sides, 48. 
Elaborated Sap, 87. 
Elliptical: regularly oval or oblong. 
Emarginate : notched at the end, 49. 
Embryo : the germ of a seed, 6, 9, 83. 
Endogenous Stem, Endogenous Plants, 41, 97. 
Ensiform: sword-shaped, as the leaves of Iris 
(Fig- «4). 
Entii'e: the margin even, not toothed or cut, 49. 
Epidermis : the skin of a plant, 44. 
Epiphytes: air-plants, 35. 
Equitant (riding astride), 53. 
Erect, 37. 
Essential Organs of the Flower, 7. 
Evergreen: holding the leaves green over winter. 
Exogenous Stem, Exogenous Plants, 41 - 43,97. 
# Exserted: protruded, or projecting, as the sta¬ 
mens in Fig. 45 
Family, 94. 
Farinaceous : mealy or like meal. 
Fascicle: a bundle or close cluster, 63. 
Fascicled Roots, 36. 
Feather-veined, 46. 
Fertile Flower, 68. 
Fibrous Roots, 27, 36. 
Fiddle-shaped: obovate but contracted on each 
side near the middle. 
Filament (of a stamen), 7, 64. 
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Filiform: thread-shaped. 
Fleshy Fruits, 77. — Plants, 31. — Roots, 35. 
Floral: relating to the flower. 
Floral Envelopes, 7. 
Flower, 5, 7, 58. 
Flower-bud : an unopened flower. 
Flower-clusters, 59. 
Flowering Plants, 58, 97. 
Flowerless Plants, 58, 97. 
Flower-stalks, 38, 60. 
Follicle: a simple pod opening down one side 
(Fig. 210), 80. 
Footstalk of a leaf, 43. 
Free: not united with any other part, as when 
the calyx is not united with the ovary, nor 
the petals with the calyx, &c., 75. 
Fringed: the margin beset with bristles, &c., or 
finely cut into slender appendages. 
Fruit, 5, 9, 77. 
Fugacious : falling or withering very early. 
Funnel-shaped, or Funnel-form, 72. 
Generic name: the name of the genus. 
Genus : plural Genera, 94. 
Germ, 6, 9. 
Germinate: to grow from the seed, 11. 
Germination, 11. 
Gibbous : projecting or bulging on one side. 
Glands : a name given to very different things ; 
to little fleshy bodies in some flowers (p. 128 ); 
to places in the leaves of the St. John’s- 
wort, the Orange, &c., appearing like dots, 
which contain a volatile oil; and to the lar¬ 
ger oil-cells in the rind of the Orange and 
Lemon. Also hairs or any projections on 
the surface of leaves or stalks which contain 
or exude any aromatic, glutinous, or watery 
matter, are called glands; as on the leaves 
and footstalks of the Sweet-Brier and of the 
Flowering Raspberry, p. 149. 
Glandular: bearing glands, or gland-like. 
Glandular hairs: hairs tipped with a gland or 
head. 
Glaucous : whitish or whitened with a bloom , or 
fine powdery matter that rubs off, as that on 
a Cabbage-leaf. 
Globose: shaped like a ball or sphere. 
Globular: nearly globose. 
Glomerate: collected into close or a head-like 
cluster. 
Glumaceous : glume-like; resembling or bearing 
glumes. 
