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1118 Attached by or on the back.

Marked with transparent receptacles of oil, looking like dots.

Resembling or of the nature of a drupe.

A fleshy or succulent fruit, such as the plum, which has the seed enclosed, in a hard and bony putamen or casing; often called a "stone-fruit."

Having no bracts.

Beset with prickles, like the capsule of Entelea.

Having no ribs.

Having no teeth.

Loosely spreading.

Without glands.

A solid with an elliptical outline.

Having the form of an ellipse—oblong with regularly rounded ends.

Drawn out in length.

Having a notch at the end, as if a piece had been taken out.

The rudimentary plant formed within the seed.

Confined to a particular country or region.

The inner layer of the pericarp, lying next the seed.

The albumen or nutritive matter of a seed, usually surrounding, the embryo.

Sword-shaped, like the leaf of an Iris.

Having an even margin, without toothing or division of any kind.

Lasting for a day, or for a very short time.

The external layer of a pericarp.

Inserted upon the corolla.

The outer cellular skin or covering of a plant.

On or relating to the outer covering.

At or upon the top of the ovary.

Inserted upon the petals.

A plant which grows upon other plants, but not as a parasite.

Folded over as if astride, like the basal part of the leaves of Phormium.

Upright; perpendicular to the ground or point of attachment.

Intermediate between erect and spreading.

Toothed in an irregular manner, as if gnawed.

Having no beak.

Without inequalities of surface.

Having no albumen; applied to those seeds where the embryo occupies the whole space within the testa.

When the vein of a leaf runs through to the apex and protrudes beyond it as a mucro.

Foreign; not native.

Spread out.

Protruding beyond, as stamens beyond the corolla.

Wanting stipules.

Directed outwards; often applied to the dehiscence of anthers.

Sickle-shaped; strongly curved.

Mealy; containing or having the texture of flour or starch, as the albumen of wheat.

Covered with a white mealy substance.

A small bundle or close cluster.

Arranged in a fascicle.

Applied to a plant when the branches are close together, parallel, and erect, as in the Lombardy Poplar.