Acerose; linear and needle-like, as Juniper leaves, etc. Achenium. (See Akene.) Achlanzydeous; applied to flowers that have no floral envelopes.
Acicular; needle-shaped.
Acotyledonous; destitute of cotyledons, or seed-leaves. Acrogenous plants. Plante which grow or develop from the apex or summit, only, of the stem.
Acrogens ; apex-growers, or acrogenous plants.
Aculeate. Prickly; armed with prickles.
Aculeolate • armed with little prickles.
Acuminate; ending in a prodnced tapering point. Acumination; An extended tapering point.
Acute; sharp: ending in an angle, or point not rounded. Adherent; attached to. or united with another different organ, as the calyx-tube to the ovary, etc.
Adnate' adhering laterally; fixed or growing to. Adventitious; happening irregularly; not produced nat urally or usually.
.e8quilateral. Equal aided; not oblique.
..:Estivation. The mode in which sepals and petals are arranged in the flower-bud before they expand. Aftermath. The second growth of the grasses in the same season, after being cut off.
Aggregated; crowded, or standing together on the same reuptacle.
Alan& or achenium. A out-seeded fruit with a dry in dehiscent pericarp; often bony or nut-like.
Ake. Wings, or membranous expansions.
Alate. Winged; having a membranoiie border.
Albumen. A deposit of nutritivematter, distinct from the embryo, found in many kernels, and sometimes as in the grasses) constituting their chief bulk.
Albuminous seeds; furnished with, or containing albumen. Alternate. Not opposite; placed alternately on the axis, or receptacle.
Alveolate; having pits or cells like a honeycomb.
Amend. A slender spike of naked and usually separated flowers. with imbricated scales or bracts.
Amorphous; without definite form.
Amplexicaut; embracing or clasping the stem. Amphitropoue ovule ; when it is half inverted and stands across the apex of the stalk or funiculus.
Amylaceous; starch-like.
Analogue. A body er organ resembling, substituted for, or equivalent to. soother body or organ.
Anastomosing; applied to branching vessels which in osculate. or unite again, like net-work.
Anatropous ovule or seed. Turned; inverted on the funi culus, so that the orifice or apex points towards the placenta.
Ancipital. Two-edged; somewhat Batted with opposite edges.
Andriecium; a term employed to deaignate. the staminate portion of a flower; the stamens or fertilizing organs in the aggregate.
Androgynous; having staminate and pistillate flowers distinct, but on the same spike, or plant.
Angiospermous; having the seeds contained in a distinct pericarp, or seed-vessel.
Angulate; having angles, or corners, mostly of a deter minate number.
Annotinous; applied to leaves, etc., which are annual, or renewed every year.
Annual; living or enduring but one year.
Annular,' in the form of a ring.
Annulate; having a ring of belt.
Anomalous. Not according to rule or system; forming an exception to usual appearances, or structure.
Anterior; in front, as that part of a 11 er next to the bract, or farthest from the axis of inflorescence.
Anther. The knob, or capsule, containing the pollen, usually supported on a filament.
bearing anthers.
A orse . or al, trorsely; pointing forwards or upwards. Apetalous. Destitute of petals; not having a corolla. Apex; the summit, npptr or outer end.
Aphyllous; destitute of leaves.
Apiculate; tipt with a minute abrupt point. Appenutculate; having some appendage annexed. ppressed; pressed to, or lying close against. Approximate; growing or situated near each other. Aquatic; growing naturally in water, or in wet places. AracbnoJd; resembling a spider's web.
Arborescent; appronclfing the size or height of a tree. Arcua e; curved or bent like a bow.
Areola. A small cavity, as in the base of some akenee. Arid; dry, as if destitute of sap.
Arillate; having an arillus.
Arillus; An expansion of the funiculns or seed-stalk, form ing a loose (and often fleshy) coating of the seed. Aristate; Awned; having awns, or bristle-like processes. Armed; having tin rns or prickles.
Aromatic; having a spicy flavor or fragrance.
Articulated. Jointed; connected by joints, or places of separation.