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Rh Plumose; having long hairs which are themselves hairy, as the pappus of Taraxacum.

Pierced with holes, like windows in a wall.

Rust-coloured.

Capable of producing fruit; also applied to stamens which produce pollen capable of fertilising ovules.

Containing a great proportion of woody fibre.

(1.) The stalk or support of an anther. (2.) Any thread-like body.

Composed of threads or filaments.

Thread-shaped.

Having the margin fringed with narrow processes.

Hollow and cylindrical; reed-like.

Fan-shaped.

Flabby; limp.

Long and slender, like a whip-lash.

Bent or curved alternately in opposite directions.

Bearing tufts or locks of woolly hairs.

A small fiower, one of a cluster or head.

Flower-bearing.

Having a strong and disagreeable smell.

Having the texture or form of a leaf.

Leafy; clothed with leaves.

Having leaflets.

A fruit consisting of a single carpel, dehiscing by the ventral suture.

Resembling a follicle.

A petiole, pedicel, or other slender support.

Branching into two divergent divisions.

Pitted: marked with depressions.

The foliage of ferns and other Cryptogams.

Fruiting; the organs concerned in the production of fruit.

Shrubby.

Soon falling off or perishing: of short duration.

Tawny; dull-yellow with a mixture of gray or brown.

The stalk connecting the ovule or seed with the placenta.

Forked; having divergent branches like the prongs of a fork.

Scurfy; provided with soft scales.

Thick, but tapering towards each end; spindle-shaped.

A petal shaped like a helmet.

Applied to a corolla in which the petals are more or less united.

Having the sepals more or less united.

Arranged in pairs; binate.

Relating to the genus.

Bent like the knee.

A clearly defined group of naturally allied species.

Protuberant; swelling out into a pouch or sac.

Having no hairs or pubescence; smooth.

Becoming glabrous.

Almost glabrous.

Sword-shaped; ensiform.

Any secreting structure, whether depressed or prominent, on any part of a plant.

Possessing glands; gland-like.

Becoming glaucous or sea-green.

Of a sea-green colour.

Spherical or nearly so.

Applied to hairs that are barbed at the end.