Part 84

CUPULE. A cup, formed of bracts, surrounding a fruit.

CYME. An arrangement of stalked flowers in which the terminal or central one is the first to open, 9

DECIDUOUS. Falling off. Applied to leaves, parts of flowers, &c.

DEHISCENT. Splitting. Applied to fruits which open when ripe, 12

DICOTYLEDON. A plant with two cotyledons in the embryo, 13

DIGITATE. Divided into finger-like lobes, 7

DISC. A fleshy ring or cup between the base of the stamens and that of the ovary.

DRUPE. A stone-fruit, 13

ENTIRE. Not divided, 6

EPIDERMIS. The outer skin of a plant

EXSTIPULATE. Without stipules, 5

FILAMENT. The stalk which bears the anther of the stamen, 9

FOLLICLE. A fruit which opens, when ripe, on one side only, 13

FRUIT. The ripened ovary of the flower, 12

GLUMES. The scaly bracts of sedges and grasses.

HERBACEOUS. Green--not woody.

HYBRID. The offspring of two different species.

IMPERFECT FLOWER. A flower which does not possess both stamens and pistil, 12

INDEHISCENT. Not splitting. Applied to fruits that do not open when ripe, 12

INFERIOR. Below. Applied to the ovary when the calyx adheres to it; and to the calyx when it is free from and below the ovary, 6

INFLORESCENCE. The arrangement of flowers, 10

INVOLUCRE. A whorl of bracts surrounding a single flower or a flower-head.

LABIATE. Lipped. Applied to the calyx or the corolla of a flower when it is divided into two lips.

LANCEOLATE. Long and narrow, like a lance-head, 7

LEAFLET. One of the distinct parts of a compound leaf, 5

LEAVES--COMPOUND. Leaves which are divided, quite to the midrib, into distinct parts, 5

LEAVES--SIMPLE. Leaves which are not divided quite to the middle, 5

LEGUME. A pod--a fruit of one cell which splits, when ripe, on both sides, 12