d, 20.

_Acorn_, 27.

_Acuminate._ Taper-pointed, 22.

_Acute._ Terminating in a well-defined angle, usually less than a right
angle, 22.

_Adventitious buds_, 31.

_Alternate._ Not opposite each other; as the leaves of a stem when
arranged one after the other along the branch, 18.

_Angulated._ Edge with such sudden bends as to form angles.

_Annual layer of wood_, 13.

_Anther._ The essential part of a stamen of a flower; the part which
contains the pollen, 24.

_Apetalous._ Said of a flower which has no corolla, 25.

_Apex._ The point or summit, as the point of a leaf.

_Apple-pome._ A fruit like the apple, with seeds in horny cells, 27.

_Appressed._ Pressed close to the stem or other part, 19.

_Ariled._ Seed with a somewhat membranous appendage, sometimes
surrounding it, and attached to one end.

_Aromatic._ With an agreeable odor.

_Arrangement of flowers_, 26; of leaves, 18.

_Astringent._ That which contracts or draws together muscular fiber; the
opposite of laxative.

_Auriculate._ Furnished with ear-shaped appendages, 21.

_Awl-shaped._ Like a shoemaker's curved awl; subulate, 21.

_Awned._ Furnished with a bristle-shaped appendage, 22.

_Axil._ The angle between the leafstalk and the twig, 14.

_Axillary._ Situated in the axil; as a bud, branch, or flower-cluster
when in the axil of a leaf, 14, 26, 30.

_Bark_, 12.

_Bases of leaves_, 21.

_Berry._ Used in this work to include any soft, juicy fruit with several
(at least more than one), readily separated seeds buried in the mass,
27.

_Bipinnate._ Twice-pinnate, 20.

_Bladdery._ Swollen out and filled with air.

_Blade._ The thin, spreading portion, as of a leaf, 19.

_Bract._ A more or less modified leaf belonging to a flower or fruit;
usually a small leaf in the axil of which the separate flower of a
cluster grows, 28.

_Branch._ A shoot or stem of a plant, 11.

_Branching_, general plan of, 29.

_Branchlet._ A small branch.

_Bristle-pointed._ Ending in a stiff, roundish hair, 22.

_Bud._ Undeveloped branch or flower, 30; forms of, 32; bud-scales, 31.

_Bur._ Rough-prickly covering of the seeds or fruit, 27.

_Bush._ A shrub, 11.

_Calyx._ The outer leafy part of a flower, 24.

_Canescent._ With a silvery appearance, 23.

_Capsule._ A dry, pod-like fruit which has either more than one cell,
or, if of one cell, not such a pod as that of the pea with the seeds
fastened on one side on a single line, 28.