Acerose; linear and needle-like, ae Juniper leaves, etc. Achenium. (See Akene.) Achlanaydeous; applied to flowers that have no floral envelopes.
Acicular• needle-ahaped.
Acotyleolonous; 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 produced 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, ae the calyx-tube to the ovary, etc.
Adnate; adhering laterally; fixed or growing to. Adventitious; happening irregularly; not produced nat „Equilateral. Equal aided; not oblique.
,fistivation. 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 receptacle.
Akene, or achenium. A one-seeded fruit with a dry in dehiscent pericarp; often bony or nut-like.
Ala. Wings, or membranous expansions.
Alate. Winged; having a membranous border.
Albumen. A deposit of nutritive matter, distinct from the embryo, fond in many kernels, and sometimes (as in the grasses) constituting their chief hulk.
Albuminous seeds; furnished with, or containing albumen. Alternate. Not opposite; placed alternately on the axis, or receptacle.
Alveolate; having pits or cells like a honey-comb.
Amen& A slender spike of naked and usually separated flowers, with imbricated scales or bracts.
Amotphous; without definite form.
Amplexicaul; embracing or clasping the stem. Amphitropous ovule; when it ie half inverted and stands across the apex of the stalk or funieulue.
Amylaceous; starch-like.
Analogue. A body or organ resembling, substituted for, or equivalent to, another body or organ. elnastomosing ; applied to branching verities which in osculate, or unite again, like net-work.
Anatropous ovule or seed. Turned; inverted on the funi
cnlue, eo that the orifice or apex points towards the placenta.
Ancipita/. somewhat flatted with opposite edges.
Andrrecium; a term employed to designate 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.
Ang ulate; having angles, or corners, mostly of a doter. minate number.
Annotinorts; applied to ]eaves, 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 or belt.
Anomalous. Not according to rule or eystem; forming sa exception to usual appearances, or structure.
Anterior; in front, ae that part of a flower next to the bract, or farthest from the axle of inflorescence.
Anther. The knob, or capsule, containing the pollen, usually supported on a filament.
Antheriferous; bearing anthers.
Antrorse, or antrorsely; pointing forwards or upwards. Apetalous. Destitute of petals; not having a corolla. Apex; the summit, upper or outer end.
Aphyllous; destitute of leaves.
Apiculate; tipt witb a minute abrupt point. Appentliculate; having some appendage annexed. -oppressed;pressed to, or lying close against. ApproacimatS;growing or situated near each other. Aquatic; growing naturally in water, or in wet places. Arachnoid; resembling a spider's web.
Arborescent; approaching the size or height of a tree. Arcuate; curved or bent like a bow.
Areola. A email cavity, as in the base of some akenes, Arid; dry, as if destitute of sap.
Arillate; having an arillua.
Arillus; An expansion of the funiculua or seed-etalk, f9rm• ing a loose (and often fleshy) coating of the seed.
Arist ate; Awned; having awns, or bristle-like processes. Armed; having thorns or prickles.
Aromatic; having a spicy flavor or fragrance.
Articulated. Jointed; connected by joints, or places of separation.