LLOYD LIBRARY CINCINNATI OHIO 
GLOSSARY. 
ACRID. — A term applied to the biting sensation produced 
on the tongue or skin by some poisonous plants. 
AGARICS. — A large family of Funguses or Mushrooms, to 
■which our eatable species and many poisonous sorts be¬ 
long. 
ALGAE. — Seaplants or weeds comprising all the vegetable 
productions found in the sea./". 
AN THER — an enlarged body at the top of the stamen con¬ 
taining the fertilizing pollen of the plant. 
APHIS — a family of minute green or brownish insects oc¬ 
curring at times in great quantities on growing plants 
and spoiling their growth and beauty. 
BRASSICA. — The scientific name of the Cabbage genus and 
representing a large family of allied varieties. 
BRACTS — or Floral leaves. They vary in colour shape and 
size from the other leaves of the plant, and are found 
near the flower and fruit. 
BULBOUS. — Applied to plants with scaly layers under¬ 
ground in which the future leaves and flowers are con¬ 
tained. 
CALYX. — The green husk or cup supporting the true flower. 
CAPSULE. — The seed-vessel of the plant usually applied 
to such as are dry when ripe. 
CARPEL — signifying “little fruit”, referring to such plants 
as have more or less of these cemented together into a 
common head. 
CATKINS — clusters of inconspicuous drooping flowers re¬ 
sembling Tassels peculiar to the Hazel and some other 
Trees. 
COROLLA. — That part of the plant usually richly coloured 
K, and known as the flower. 
CORYMB. — A particular arrangement of a flowering branch 
in which the individual flowers have a separate support 
and form a flat surface. 
CRUCIFORM. — Cross-shaped applied to some flowers— such 
as Stocks — and other natural objects of that form. 
CRYPTOGAMOUS — or Flowerless plants comprising all the 
lower orders of plants which seem to want the perfect 
organs of higher orders. /' 
EMBRYO. — The young imperfect state of the seeds of plants 
or other organic bodies. 
ENDOGENS. — Plants in which the increase to the bulk of 
the stem arises chiefly from the centre. 
EXOGENS. — Plants in which increase to the bulk is effected 
from the circumference. — In our common Trees this is 
seen in the layers of w oody matter added each year to 
the trunk. 1 ^ 
FILAMENT — the thready portion of the stamen supporting 
the anther. 
FLORET — a small flower or an individual one of such as 
grow in masses. 
FROND — any broad leafy substance usually applied to the 
leaves of FERNS, PALMS &c. 
GERM — any bud or seed in a dormant state — capable of 
producing a plant. 
INVOLUCRE — a form of calyx enclosing clusters of such 
flowers as grow in masses. 
KELP — the produce of burnt sea weed used at one time 
extensively in the manufacture of glass, soap &c. 
LEGUME — a particular kind of seed vessel peculiar to the 
pea family and known familiarly as the “pod”. 
LICHENS. — A large family of Cryptogamous or flowerless 
plants of a scaly or leathery nature encrusting walls 
trees &c. 
LIGNINE — the woody principle of which the timber of trees 
and shrubs is composed./ 
LINEAR — applied to leaves and other vegetable productions 
of extreme narrowness. 
LOBED — a term applied to leaves with broad irregular 
rounded divisions. 
MEDULLARY RAYS. — Lines of woody matter stretching 
from the central pith to the circumference of timber trees. 
NARCOTIC — the powerfully stupifying principle found in 
various poisonous plants. 
PAPILIONACEOUS — or Butterfly shaped, applied to the 
flowers of the Pea and Orchis tribes from the resemblance 
some of them have to insects. / 
PINNATE — applied to compound leaves where the divisions 
are opposite to each other and placed on a common stalk. 
PARENCHYMA ■— the tissue of plants composed of minute 
cells. 
PETAL. — The coloured portion of the plant of which the 
flower or corolla consists. It is of one or more petals 
the flower is composed. 
PISTIL — the thready portion of the flower surrounded by 
the Anthers, and communicating with the seed vessel. 
PROLIFEROUS — applied to plants which — in addition to 
other means — are propagated by plants.^ 
PHOENOGAMOUS — or Flowering Plants those in which the 
-"different parts of the flower are distinctly visible to the 
naked eye. 
SEPALS — the separate divisions of the calyx or flower cup* 
as the petals are of the corolla. 
SILIQUE — a species of seed vessel or pod such as is found 
in the Turnip family, and others. 
SPATHE. — A sort of calyx encircling and covering the flowe¬ 
ring portion of the plant like a hood or mantle./ 
STAMENS — the thready objects inside the flower surroun¬ 
ding the young seed vessel and consisting of the Anther 
— and Filament described above. 
STIGMA — the summit of the Pistil and usually more or less 
rounded in form. 
STYLE. — The intermediate portion between the Stigma and 
Seedvessel — it is frequently absent. 
UMBELLATE. — Plants with their flowers in a compound cup 
— shaped head — the umbelliferae — a large natural fa¬ 
mily afford good illustrations. 
WHORL — the arrangement of flowers or leaves in a circular 
or wheel like manner all round the stem. 
