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GLOSSARY.<br />
Achene<br />
A dry one-seeded fruit as in the Dandelion, or one carpel in a<br />
cluster, as in the fruit of the Buttercup.<br />
Acuminate When the tip of a leaf is tapering and prolonged to a long<br />
point.<br />
Acute Having a sharp-pointed tip or when the tip forms a narrow angle.<br />
Alternate When the leaves are arranged one above the other at different<br />
levels.<br />
Annual Plants that flower in the same year in which they are raised<br />
from seeds.<br />
Anther That part of a stamen in which the pollen is produced.<br />
Awn A stiff or flexible bristle.<br />
Axil The angle formed by the stem or branch with the attached leaf.<br />
Axillary When an organ grows from the axil of a leaf.<br />
BerryA fleshy or pulpy<br />
fruit with seeds embedded, e.g., Grape,<br />
Gooseberry.<br />
Bi Used in compounds, means twice or two, e.g., bilobed, i.e., having<br />
two lobes.<br />
Blade The flat part of a leaf.<br />
Bracts Leaf-like or scale-like organs immediately beneath the flowers.<br />
Several bracts arranged in a whorl below an umbel or head of flowers<br />
are called involucre.<br />
Bracteoles Small bracts immediately below or next to the flower.<br />
Calyx Made up of sepals which are free or united.<br />
Capsule A dry fruit splitting open when ripe.<br />
Carpel One of the component parts of a fruit; carpels are separate<br />
(Buttercup) or united (Flax) the pod of a Pea consists of one carpel.<br />
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Catkin e.g., the flower-spike of a Willow.<br />
Ciiiate Having hairs on the margin.<br />
Claw Stalk of a petal.<br />
Compound When a leaf is divided to the stalk or midrib into several<br />
distinct leaflets.<br />
Corolla Made up of petals which are free or united.<br />
Corymb When the flower-stalks arise from different points on the axis ;<br />
the stalks get shorter higher up so that the flowers are at the same<br />
level.<br />
Crenate When a leaf has rounded teeth on the margin.<br />
Cyme An irregular clustered inflorescence ;<br />
the cyme of a Forget-me-not<br />
is called scorpioid cyme.<br />
Digitate When the leaflets of a compound leaf arise all from the top of<br />
the stalk, spreading like the fingers of a hand.<br />
Drupe A fleshy fruit enclosing a stone which contains the seed, e.g.,<br />
the Cherry.
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