GLOSSARY 
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Discrete, not crowded, distinctly 
separate but not remote or dis¬ 
tant. 
Dissected, several times cut into 
small segments. 
Divided, cleft quite to the base or 
to the midrib. 
Emarginate, with a sharp notch. 
Entire, the margin not toothed or 
indented. 
Epigynous, as if borne on the sum¬ 
mit of the ovary. 
Exserted, protruding beyond the 
surrounding organ. 
Fascicle, a close cluster or bundle. 
Fertile, setting fruit or containing 
good pollen. 
Fistulous, hollow. 
Foliaceous, leaf-like. 
Follicle, the fruit of a simple pistil. 
Free, not united to another organ. 
Gibbous, swollen or distended on 
one side. 
Glabrous, not hairy; bald. 
Herb, a plant without woody stem 
or parts, at least above ground. 
Hispid, with stiff rigid hairs. 
Hispidulous, minutely hispid. 
Hooded, concave or curved in at 
the top like a hood. 
Hypogynous, inserted on the recep¬ 
tacle and free from -the ovary. 
Incised, cut irregularly. 
Included, not protruding beyond 
the surrounding organ. 
Indehiscent, not splitting open. 
Inferior ovary, one more or less 
attached to the calyx. 
Involucre, a circle of bracts sub¬ 
tending a flower-cluster; in- 
volucel, a secondary involucre. 
Laciniate, cut or slashed into nar¬ 
row divisions. 
Leaflet, one of the divisions of a 
compound leaf. 
Limb, the spreading part of a 
corolla. 
Lobe, a shallow division of an 
organ. 
Monadelphous, united in one set. 
Nut, an indehiscent fruit with a 
hard firm wall ; nutlet, a diminu¬ 
tive nut. 
Obtuse, blunt or rounded. 
Palmate, with the parts borne like 
the fingers on a hand. 
Panicle, a compound flower-cluster, 
a raceme or corymb compounded 
by branching. 
Pappus, the modified calyx of Com- 
positae, often hair-like, bristly 
or .scaly. 
Parted, cleft nearly but not quite 
to the base or to the midrib. 
Pedicel, stalk of a flower in a 
flower-cluster. 
Peduncle, stalk of a flower or 
flower-cluster. 
Perigynous, inserted on the calyx. 
Persistent, falling away tardily or 
not at all. 
Pinnate, with the leaflets arranged 
along each side of a common 
petiole. 
Pinnatidd, cleft in a pinnate man¬ 
ner. 
Pistil, is simple when composed of 
a single carpel, is compound 
when composed of 2 or more 
carpels. 
Placenta, the portion of the ovary 
wall bearing the ovules. 
Pod, a dry dehiscent fruit, such as 
a capsule, follicle, legume or 
silique. 
Posterior, the side behind, in an ax¬ 
illary flower the side next to the 
axis. 
Prostrate, lying close along the 
ground. 
Puberulent, minutely pubescent. 
Pubescent, clothed with hairs. 
Raceme, a flower-cluster in which 
the flowers are borne along the 
peduncle on pedicels of nearly 
equal length. 
Rcvolute, rolled backward from 
each side. 
