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GLOSSARY.
Obtuse, blunt.
Orbicular, round and flat.
Palmate, the name applied to any prominence or glb-
Dosity in the jaws of a flower.
Petioles, the foot-stalk of the leaves.
Pennate, a leaflet of a winged leaf.
Procumbent, trailing.
Protuberances, in seed-vessels, are occasioned by the
swelling out of the seeds.
Jtadius, the semi-diameter of a circle.
Pecems, a cluster, in which the flowers placed along the
common foot-stalk, are furnished with short proper
foot-stalks, proceeding as lateral branches from the
common flower-stalk.
Segment, the small parts of a leaf, cup, or petal, inclosed
between incisions.
Serrate, like the teeth of a common saw.
Sessile, sitting.
Sinuate, indented.
Spirally, twisted like a cork-screw
Tormentose, cottony.
Trailing, lying along on the ground, and not sending out
roots, as the common Speedwell.
Tubular, in the shape of a hollow tube, as the cup of
Previt, and blossom of the Honeysuckle.
Terrate, leaves growing three together from the same
point.
Umbel, the extremity of a stalk or branch divided into
several pedicles or rags, beginning from the same point
and opening so as to form an inverted cone.
Umbellifirous, plants that bear many flowers, growing
upon many foot-stalks.
Whirles, of branches, leaves, or flowers; exemplified in
branches of the Fir leaves, of Ladies’ Bed-straw, and
the flowers of the Dead-nettle.