Diceciously, or dioicously polygamous ; having perfect and imperfect flowers on different plants.
Dinetalous ; having two petals.
Discoid flower, or head. A disk of compound flowers, without ray-florets.
Disepalous; having two sepals.
Disk. The surface of the leaf; also the face, or central part of a head of compound flowers.
Dissected ; cut into segments, or lobes.
Dissepiment. The partition between the cells of seed vessels.
Distant ; having a larger intervening space than usual. Distichous ; two-rowed; bearing leaves, flowers, etc., in two opposite rows.
Distinct ; separate; not connected with each other, nor with any contiguous organ.
Divaricate branches. Spreading so as to form more than a right angle with the stem above.
Divergent ; spreading widely; making a right-angle, or nearly so, with the stem.
Di?ided ; separated, or cleft to the base, or to the midrib, if a leaf.
Dorsal ; belonging to, or growing on, the back. Dorsalsuture. be line or seam ou the back of a carpel, or folded leaf, being at the place of the midrib; the opposite of ventral suture; which see.
Dorsally compressed; flatted on the back.
Dote. • Minute tubercles. or specks.
Dotted; covered with dots, specks, or minute and slightly elevated points.
Downy ; clothed with soft fine hairs.
Drooping ; inclining downwards; more than nodding. Drupaceous ; drupe-like; of a structure resembling a drupe, or what is usually called stone-fruit.
Drupe. A fleshy, succulent, or spongy pericarp, without valves, containing a one or two seeded nut, or stone. Drunel. A little drupe; a constituent portion of a com pound berry, such as that of rubus.
E, or Ex; in composition, destitute of, not furnished with.
Ebracteate; destitute of bracts.
Embracteo/ate; destitute of bractlets.
Ecaudale ; destitute of a cauda, or tail.
Echinate ; hedghog-like ; covered with prickles.
Etagere. Minute, club-shaped filaments, which are coiled round the spores of certain cryptogamous plants, and by unrolling assist in dispersing those spores.
Elliptic, or elliptical ; oval; longer than wide, with the two ends narrowing equally.
Elongated; exceeding the or average length.
Elongating; becoming gradually and finally elongated. Enuirginate; having a notch or sinus at tee end. Embryo. The young plant in the rudimentary state, as it exists in the seed.
Emerged; raised out of water.
Endo arp. That membranous or bony portion of the per carp which lines the cavity or forme the cells for the aeeda (ex. gr. the atone, or hard shell, in a drupe).
End .geno .6 plants. Those which have a single cetyl &lin, and grow by central depoaite of new matter, dist.as ding or pushing the older deposits outwards. EndOge 8. inside”.."rowers; plants which increase by central or internal depeita of new matter.
.Enneandrous; having nine stamens.
Ensifornz; sword-ahaped; two-edged and tapering from base to apex.
Entire ; having a continuous even margin; without in cision, notch or tooth.
Enre .lpe. An integument, or covering.
Ephemeral ; diurnal; enduring one day only.
Epic arp; the outer coating of the oerearp, or fruit. Epidermis; the outer skin or cuticle.
Epigcean; or rising, shove ground.
Epigynoas; adnate to the ovary so that the upper portion is apparently inserted on its summit, as sepals. petals, and more especially stamens; exemplified in Umbellif erce and eiraliacece.
Epip talous: inserted on the petals.
Equal; similar parts equal among themselves, as calyx segments, sepals, petals, atameus, etc.
Epip yt s; air plants having no immediate connection with the earth, but growing on the stem of other plants.
Equitant leaves. When alternate distiehoua leaves are infolded lengthwise and t 'wards each other, the outer ones inelosing or embracing the inner.
Erect ovules, or seeds. When they arise from the bottom of the ovary, or base of the cell, and point upwards. Eroded, ur erose; irregularly notated, as if gnawed by insects.
Esculent; eatable; fit or safe to be eaten.
Etiolation: the bleaching of plants, or rendering them white by the extrusion of light; as practiced with cel ery, endive, etc.