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Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1817. Excerpt: ... EXPLANATION or THE BOTANICAL TERMS MADE USE OF IN THIS VOLUME. The terms in this list are accented, and are to be pronounced in the same manner us the Latin names of Plants in the preceding part of the Volume. A Alternate, branches, leaves, or flowers,--coming out regularly one above another, but on different sides; not opposite. Angiosper''mia; one of the orders of the class Didynamia; in which the seeds are enclosed in a seedvessel. Annual; plants or roots, living only one year. An''ther; the uppermost part of a stamen, fixed upon the top of the filament, and containing the pollen. Arrow-shaped; shaped like the head of an arrow; as the leaves of common sorrel, or the anther of the crocus. (Plate IV.) Awl-shaped; slender, and becoming finer towards die end, like an awl; as the filaments of the flowering rush. (Plate IX.) Awn; a slender, stiff, sharp substance, growing from the husks of some grasses and other flowers; as in oats, barley, and the teasel. Bark; the outermost covering of the roots, stems, and branches of vegetables. It is generally divided into three parts; the cuticle or skin, the outer, and the inner bark. Bell-shaped; having the shape of a bell; like the blossom of lily of the valley, or campanula. Berry; a pulpy seed-vessel, without valves; in which the seeds are surrounded with the pulp, as in the gooseberry, and the common holly. (Plate V.) Biennial; living two years, and then perishing. In biennial plants, a root and leaves are formed during the first year, and the flower and fruit completed in the second. Blossom, (Corolla); that part of a flower which is generally coloured, and consists of one or more petals. (See Plate I.) Border; the upper spreading part of a blossom of one petal; as in the germander-speedwell. (Plate III.) B...
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