Glossary. 
Awn - a bristlelike appendage. 
Bisexual - haying both sexes present and functional in the one flower. 
Bract - a much reduced leaf, particularly the small or scalellhe leaves 
in a flower cluster. 
Calyx - the outer whorl of the perianth composed of the sepals . 
Compound - two or more similar parts in one organ, i.e., a leaf composed of 
several leaflets. 
Corolla - inner whorl of the perianth composed of the petals . 
Deciduous - falling at the end of one season of growth or life, as the 
leaves of nonevergreen trees. Some trees and shrubs are 
deciduous throughput the year. 
Dioecious - with stominate and pistellate flowers on different plants. 
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Entire -leaf with a continuous margin; not in any way indented; whole. 
Estipulate - without stipules. 
Evergreen - plants which are green throughout the year. 
Filament - the stalk of the stamen which is terminated by the anther. 
Floret - individual and very small flowers of the Compositae and Gramineae . 
Frond - leaves of ferns (or palms). 
Glume - one of two sterile bracts at the base of most grass spiketels. 
Inflorescence - a flower cluster or flowering branch. 
Lenima - the lower of the two bracts immediately enclosing the flower. 
Lobed - an organ part, i.e., petal, sepal or leaf peats that represent a 
division of the organ. 
Locule - a compartment*.? 
Meeily - 
Monoecious - with stominate and pistellate flowers on the same plant. 
