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Glossary Of Flora Special Terms. Part 3 |
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This section is from the book "An Illustrated Flora Of The Northern United States, Canada And The British Possessions Vol1", by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown. Also available from Amazon: An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. 3 Volume Set..
Color of iron-rust.
Ill-smelling.
With fibres or fibre-like organs.
The stalk of an anther; the two forming the stamen.
Composed of thread-like structures; thread-like.
Thread-like.
With fringed edges.
Minutely fringed.
Hollow and cylindric.
Fan-shaped, or arranged like the sticks of a fan.
Lax; weak.
Alternately bent in different directions.
With loose tufts of wool-like hairs.
Similar to leaves.
With separate leaflets.
A simple fruit dehiscent along one suture.
Similar to a follicle.
Foveolate. More or less pitted.
Separate from other organs; not adnate.
The leaves of ferns.
Fruticose. More or less shrub-like.
Falling soon after development.
Plants not native, but occurring here and there, without direct evidence of becoming established.
The stalk of an ovule or seed.
Spindle-shaped.
A hood-like part of a perianth or corolla.
With a galea.
The sexual generation of plants.
With petals more or less united.
A bud-like propagative organ.
Enlarged or swollen on one side.
Nearly without hairs.
Devoid of hairs.
Like a sword-blade.
A secreting cell, or group of cells.
With glands, or gland-like.
Covered with a fine bluish or white bloom; bluish-hoary.
Spherical or nearly so.
In a compact cluster.
A dense capitate cyme.
Resembling glumes.
The scaly bracts of the spikelets of grasses and sedges.
Composed of grains.
Growing in groups or colonies.
In Carex, a spike with upper flowers pistillate and lower staminate.
A prolongation or enlargement of the receptacle, supporting the ovary.
General aspect.
A plant's natural place of growth.
Halberd-shaped; like sagittate, but with the basal lobes diverging.
The specialized roots of parasites.
A dense round cluster of sessile or nearly sessile flowers.
Leaf-like in texture and color; pertaining to an herb.
The scar or area of attachment of a seed or ovule.
With rather coarse stiff hairs.
With bristly stiff hairs.
Diminutive of hispid.
Thin and translucent.
The rudimentary stem of the embryo; also termed radicle.
Organ supporting the ovary in some sedges.
Borne at the base of the ovary, or below.
A generic or specific name untypi-fied.
Overlapping.
Flowers with either stamens or pistils, not with both.
Cut into sharp lobes.
Not projecting beyond surrounding parts.
With the back against the hypocotyl.
Not opening.
The membrane covering a sorus.
Unequal sided.
Relating to an organ which arises or is situated below another.
Abruptly bent inward.
The flowering part of plants; its mode of arrangement.
A coat or protecting layer.
Portion of a stem or branch between two successive nodes.
Facing inward.
A secondary involucre.
With a secondary involucre.
With an involucre, or like one.
A whorl of bracts subtending a flower or flower-cluster.
Rolled inwardly.
A flower in which one or more of the organs of the same series are unlike.
Provided with a lip-like organ.
Cut into narrow lobes or segments.
Considerably longer than broad, tapering upward from the middle or below; lance-shaped.
The milky sap of certain plants.
One of the divisions of a compound leaf.
A simple dry fruit dehiscent along both sutures.
Lens-shaped.
Provided with or resembling a ligule.
A strap-shaped organ, as the rays in Compositae.
The expanded part of a petal, sepal, or gamopetalous corolla.
Elongated ancTnaTrow with sides nearly parallel.
With fine or obscure lines.
Divided to about the middle.
A jointed legume, usually constricted between the seeds.
Applied to capsules which split longitudinally into their cavities.
Minute hyaline scales subtending the flower in grasses.
Crescent-shaped.
Pinnatifid, with the terminal lobe or segment considerably larger than the others.
Sporange containing macro-spores.
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