Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: GLOSSARY Abortive: imperfectly formed or rudimentary. Abruptly pinnate: pinnate without an odd leaflet at the end. Acaulescent: apparently stemless. Acerose: needle-shaped, as the leaves of the pines. Achene: a small, dry, hard, 1-celled, 1-seeded, indehiscent fruit. Aculeate: armed with prickles (aculei), as the rose and brier. Acuminate: taper-pointed. Acute: merely sharp-pointed. Adventive: imperfectly naturalized. Alate: winged. Alpine: belonging to high mountains above the limit of forests. Alternate (leaves, branches, etc.): not opposite; with a single leaf at each node. Alveolate: honeycomb-like. Ament: same as catkin. Annual: of only one year’s duration. Annular: in the form of a ring, or forming a circle. Anterior (in the flower): the side toward the bract (external). Anthesis: the opening of the flower. Apetalous (flower): without petals. Apiculate: tipped with a short and abrupt point. Appressed: lying close and flat. Arachnoid: cobwebby; consisting of soft downy fibers. Arcuate: bent or curved like a bow. Aristate: awned, like the beard of barley. Articulated: jointed. Assurgent: ascending; rising gradually upwards. Auriculate: furnished with ear-like appendages. Awn: a bristle-like appendage. Axil: the upper angle between a leaf aud the stem. Axis: the central line of any body. Barbed: furnished with rigid points or short bristles, usually reflexed like the barb of a fishhook. Beaked: ending in a prolonged narrow tip. Bearded: with long or stiff hairs of any sort. Biennial: of two years’ duration, springing from the seed one season, flowering and dying the next. Bifid: two-cleft to about the middle. Bilabiate: two-lipped. Bipinnate (leaf): twice pinnate. Biternate: twice ternate. Bristl…
