e._ Minutely dentate.

_Dichotomous._ Forking regularly by twos, as the branches of the Lilac.

_Dilated._ Spreading out; expanding in all directions.

_Dioecious._ With stamens and pistils on different plants, 25.

_Distichous._ Two-ranked; spreading on opposite sides in one plane; as
_leaves_, 18; or _branches_, 19.

_Divergent._ Spreading apart.

_Divided._ Separated almost to the base or midrib, 23.

_Drupe._ A fleshy fruit with a single bony stone. In this book applied
to all fruits which, usually juicy, have a single seed, even if not
bony, or a bony stone, even if the stone has several seeds, 27.

_Dry drupe._ Used when the material surrounding the stone is but
slightly fleshy, 27.

_Duration of leaves_, 23.

_Elliptical._ Having the form of an elongated oval, 20.

_Emarginate._ With a notched tip, 22.

_Endogenous._ Inside-growing; growing throughout the substance of the
stem, 12.

_Entire._ With an even edge; not notched, 22.

_Enveloping organs._ In a flower, the calyx and corolla which cover the
stamens and pistil, 25.

_Essential organs._ In a flower, the organs needed to produce seeds; the
stamens and pistil, 25.

_Evergreen._ Retaining the leaves (in a more or less green condition)
through the winter and till new ones appear, 23.

_Excurrent._ With the trunk continued to the top of the tree, 16, 29.

_Exogenous._ Outside-growing; growing by annual layers near the surface,
11.

_Exserted._ Projecting beyond an envelope, as the stamens from a
corolla, or the bracts beyond the scales of a cone, 28.

_Exstipulate._ Without stipules, 19.

_Extra-axillary buds_, 30.

_Fasciculated._ In clusters or fascicles, 18.

_Feather-veined._ With the veins of a leaf all springing from the sides
of the midrib, 20.

_Fibrous._ Composed of fine threads or fibers.

_Filament._ The stalk of a stamen, 24; any thread-like body.

_Flowering._ Having flowers.

_Flowers_, 24; clusters of, 26; kinds of, 25.

_Folding of leaves in the bud_, 33.

_Foliaceous._ Like a leaf in texture or appearance.

_Footstalk._ The stem of a leaf (petiole), or the stem of a flower
(peduncle).

_Forms of leaves_, 20.

_Fruit_, 24, 26.

_Gamopetalous._ Same as monopetalous, 25.

_Glabrous._ Having a smooth surface; free from hairs, bristles, or any
pubescence, 23.

_Glands._ Small cellular organs which secrete oily, aromatic, or other
products. They are sometimes sunk in the leaves, etc., as on the
Pr