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 GLOSSARY

OF

TECHNICAL TERMS EMPLOYED IN THE WORK.

Ligulate (Petals).—Furnished with a limb or flattened portion. h
 * Abortive.—Imperfectly developed, rudimentary.
 * Acuminate.—Tapering to a long point.
 * Acute.—Pointed.
 * Adnate (Anthers).—Continuous with the filament.
 * Alternate (Leaves).—Placed alternately on either side of the stem.
 * Amplexicaul (Leaves).—Embracrig the stem at the base.
 * Articulated.—United by a joint.
 * Ascending (Stem).—Depressed towards the ground at the base and rising above.
 * Auricles (Leaves).—Ear-like lobes at the base.
 * Awn.—A terminal bristle.
 * Axil.—Place of attachment to the stem.
 * Axile (Placenta).—Attached to the centre of the seed-vessel.
 * Barren (Flower).—Producing stamens only: forming no seed.
 * Bifid.—Two-lobed.
 * Bilabiate (Corolla).—Two-lipped.
 * Bi-pinnate (Leaves).—Twice pinnately compound.
 * Bi-pinnatfid (Leaves).—Twice pinnately lobed.
 * Biternate (Leaves).—Twice ternately compound.
 * Campanulate.—Bell-shaped.
 * Canescent.—Covered with short whitish hairs.
 * Capillary.—Hair-like; very slender.
 * Capitate (Inflorescence).—In a close head or cluster.
 * Ciliated.—Fringed at the margin with hairs.
 * Clavate.—Club-shaped.
 * Compound (Leaves).—Formed of several leaflets.
 * Convolute (Leaves).—Turned inwards at the edges.
 * Cordate (Leaves).—Heart-shaped, or with rounded lobes at the base.
 * Coriaceous (Leaves).—Tough and dry or leathery.
 * Corymbose (Inflorescence).—In a corymb, or Rattened panicle.
 * Cottony.—Covered with white down.
 * Creeping (Stem or Root).—Running along or beneath the surface.
 * Crenated (Leaves).—Indented on the margin with rounded teeth.
 * Cuneate (Leaves).—Wedge-shaped, tapering towards the base.
 * Cymose (Inflorescence).—In a cyme. See Introduction.
 * Deciduous.—Falling when ripe or withered.
 * Decumbent (Stem).—Lying near the ground at the base. More depressed than when Ascending.
 * Decurrent (Leaves).—With the edges prolonged and running down the stem.
 * Dehiscent (Fruit).—Discharging its seeds.
 * Diadelphous (Stamens).—United by the filaments into two groups.
 * Dichotomous.—Forked, or dividing by twos.
 * Digitate(Leaves).—Leaflets radiating from the point of the stalk, as in the Horse-Chestnut.
 * Diœcious.—Barren and fertile flowers on separate plants.
 * Downy.—Covered with close soft hairs.
 * Elliptical.—Oval in general outline.
 * Emarginated.—Indented at the apex.
 * Entire.—Not lobed or divided.
 * Epigynous (Stamens).—Placed apparently upon the ovary.
 * Equitant (Leaves).—Flattened vertically and clasping the bud or stem in a slit at the base, as in Iris.
 * Fertile (Flower).—Producing seed; containing perfect pistils.
 * Filiform.—Thread-like.
 * Fleshy (Leaves).—Thick and soft.
 * Fusiform (Root).—Spindle-shaped.
 * Glabrous.—Not quite smooth, but without hairs.
 * Glandular.—Bearing glands or small secreting organs.
 * Glaucous.—Whitish-green.
 * Hastate (Leaves).—With diverging horizontal lobes at the base, like a halbert blade.
 * Herbaceous (Stem).—Not woody.
 * Hirsute.—Densely hairy.
 * Hispid.—Covered with stiff hairs.
 * Hoary.—Covered with minute white down or hairs.
 * Hypogynous (Stamens).—Placed beneath the ovary.
 * Imbricated.—Overlapping like tiles.
 * Indehiscent (Fruit).—Not shedding its seed.
 * Lanceolate (Leaves).—Broadest below the middle and tapering towards the apex, like a Greek spear-head.