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=Decurrent.= Leaves prolonged on the stem beneath the insertion: branchlets springing out beneath the point of furcation, as the feathering along the trunk of elms, etc.
=Dentate.= With teeth pointing outwards.
=Disk.= Central part of a head of flowers; fleshy expansion of the receptacle of a flower; any rounded, flat surface.
=Drupe.= A stone fruit; soft externally with a stone at the center, as the cherry and peach.
=Erose.= Eroded, as if gnawed.
=Exserted.= Protruding, projecting out of.
=Falcate.= Scythe-shaped.
=Fertile.= Flowers containing the pistil, capable of producing fruit.
Anthers in such blossoms, if any, are generally abortive.
=Fibrovascular.= Bundle or tissue, formed of wood fibers, ducts, etc.
=Filament.= Part of stamen supporting anther.
=Fungus.= A division of cryptogamous plants, including mushrooms, etc.
=Furcation.= Branching.
=Glabrous.= Smooth without hairiness or roughness.
=Glandular.= Bearing glands or appendages having the appearance of glands.
=Glaucous.= Covered with a bloom: bluish h.o.a.ry.
=Globose= or =globous.= Spherical or nearly so.
=Habit.= The general appearance of a plant.
=Habitat.= The place where a plant naturally grows, as in swamps, in water, upon dry hillsides, etc.
=Hybrid.= A cross between two species.
=Imbricated.= Overlapping.
=Inflorescence.= Mode of disposition of flowers; sometimes applied to the flower-cl.u.s.ter itself.
=Involucre.= Bracts subtending a flower or a cl.u.s.ter of flowers.
=Keeled.= Having a central dorsal ridge like the keel of a boat.
=Key.= A winged fruit; a samara.
=Lacerate.= Irregularly cleft, as if torn.
=Lanceolate.= Lance-shaped, broadest above the base, gradually narrowing to the apex.
=Leaf.= Consisting when botanically complete of a blade, usually flat, a footstalk and two appendages at base of the footstalk; often consisting of blade only.
=Leaf, compound.= Having two to many distinct blades on a common leafstalk or rachis. These blades may be sessile or have leafstalks of their own.
=Leaf, pinnately compound.= With the leaflets arranged along the sides of the rachis.
=Leaf, palmately compound.= With leaflets all standing on summit of petiole.
=Leaf-cus.h.i.+ons.= Organs resembling persistent decurrent footstalks, upon which leaves of spruces, etc., stand; sterigmata.
=Leaf-scar.= The scar left on the twig where the petiole was attached.
=Lenticel.= Externally appearing upon the bark as spots, warts, and perpendicular or transverse lines.
=Linear.= Long and narrow with sides nearly parallel.
=Monopetalous.= Having petals more or less united.
=Mucronate.= Abruptly tipped with a small, sharp point.
=Nerved.= Having prominent unbranched ribs or veins.
=Obcordate.= Inversely heart-shaped.
=Obovate.= Ovate with the broader end towards the apex.
=Obtuse.= Blunt or rounded at the end.
=Orbicular.= Having a circular or nearly circular outline.
=Ovary.= The part of the pistil containing the ovules.
=Ovoid.= A solid with an oval or ovate outline.
=Ovuliferous.= Bearing ovules.
=Panicle.= General term for any loose and irregular flower-cl.u.s.ter, commonly of the racemose type, with pedicellate flowers.
=Pedicel.= The stalk of a single flower in the ultimate divisions of an inflorescence.
=Peduncle.= The stem of a solitary flower or of a cl.u.s.ter.
=Perfect.= Having both pistils and stamens.
=Perianth.= The floral envelope consisting of calyx, corolla, or both.
=Persistent.= Not falling for a long time.
