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GLOSSARY OF TECHNICAL TERMS.
- Ligule.—A small stipule-like appendage at the base of the leaves of grasses.
- Linear (Leaves).—Very narrow, but flat.
- Linear-lanceolate.—Long and narrow, but tapering, and broadest below the middle.
- Linear-oblong.—Somewhat broader than when linear.
- Lyrato (Leaves).—With horizontal lobes, the terminal one largest.
- Mealy—Covered with minute white powdery down.
- Membranous(Leaves).—Very thin and lax.
- Monadelphous (Leaves).—United by the filaments into one group.
- Monæcious.—Barren and fertile flowers distinct, but upon the same plant.
- Mucronate {Leaves).—With the midrib projecting from the apex.
- Obcordate.—Cordate, with the lobes upward.
- Obovate (Leaves).—Egg-shaped, with the broadest part above.
- Obsolete (Calyx.)—Rudimentary, a mere rim.
- Obtuse (Leaves).—Blunt at the apex.
- Opposite (Leaves).—Placed in pairs on opposite sides of the stem.
- Orbicular (Leaves).—Circular in general outline. (Root).—Globular.
- Oval (Leaves).—Oval in general outline.
- Ovate (Leaves).—Egg-shaped, with the broadest part below.
- Palmate(Leaves).—With finger-like lobes.
- Papilionaceous (Flowers).—Like the Pea-flower, See Introduction.
- Pappus.—The hairs or scales (rudimentary calyx) below the florets of Compositæ.
- Parietal (Placenta).—Attached to the sides of the carpels.
- Pectinated.—Toothed like a comb.
- Pedate (Leaves).—Divided primarily into three, the two lateral branches forked or divided into leaflets on their inner margin only, as in Hellebore.
- Pedatifid (Leaves).—With pedate lobes.
- Pedicel.—The stalk supporting each flower on a branched flower-stem.
- Peltate (Leaves).—With the stalk attached to the underside, as in Hydrocotyle.
- Perfoliate (Leaves).—Base of the leaf surrounding the stem, as in Chlora.
- Perigynous (Stamens).—Situated apparently upon the calyx.
- Persistent.—Remaining attached, not deciduous.
- Pilose.—Covered with long hairs.
- Pinnate (Leaves).—Composed of a row of leaflets on each side of the stalk, as in the Rose.
- Piunatifid (Leaves).—Pinnately lobcd.
- Procumbent (Stem).—Lying on the ground for the greater part of its length.
- Prostrate (Stem).—Lying close to the ground.
- Pubescent.—Downy; covered with close soft hairs.
- Quinate (Leaves).—With five diverging leaflets.
- Radical.—Springing from the root.
- Ray.—The outer ligulate flowers of some Compositæ
- Reniform (Leaves).—Kidney -shaped or very broadly cordate.
- Retuse (Leaves).—Trimcate and slightly indented at the apex.
- Revolute (Leaves).—The margins rolled backwards.
- Rotate (Flowers).—With the petals radiating horizontally.
- Runcinate (Leaves).—With lateral lobes curving towards the stem.
- Runners.—Creeping stems thrown out from the root.
- Sagittate (Leaves).—With acute lobes at the base, like a barbed arrow-head.
- Scape.—A flower-stalk rising from the root, without leaves.
- Scions.—Runners.
- Serrated (Leaves).—Indented on the margin with sharp teeth, like a saw.
- Sessile.—Placed directly upon the stem, without stalks.
- Setaceous (Leaves).—Very slender or bristle-like.
- Setæ.—Bristly hairs.
- Sinuated (Leaves).—With broad shnllow rounded indentations on the margin.
- Spatulate (Leaves).—Broadest at the aper, and long and tapering below.
- Spinous.—Furnished with thorns or prickles.
- Subulate (Leaves).—Awl-shaped, narrow-linear, as thick as broad.
- Succulent.—Thick, soft and juicy.
- Ternate (Leaves),—Composed of three leaflets.
- Tomentose.—Cottony, or covered with thick down.
- Toothed (Leaves).—Cut on the margin into deep teeth.
- Trifid (Leaves).—Three-cleft.
- Tri-pinnate (Leaves).—Thrice pinnately compound.
- Tri-pinnatifid (Leaves).—Thrice pinnately lobed.
- Urceolate (Corolla).—Cup-shaped, but contracted at the top.
- Vittæ.—Channels filled with oil in the fruit of Umbelliferæ
- Whorled (Leaves).—Arranged in circles around the nodes, several together.
