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BOTANIC TEKMS AND DEFINITIONS.

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SEED. RECEPTACLE.

Tail, cauda, a eed terminated by a thread.Hook, hamus, by which it adheres to animals.Calycle, calycuius, the proper cover of the seed.Nut, mix, a seed covered with a bony cuticle.Aril, ariltus, the proper exterior coat of the seed, falling offspontaneously.RECEPTACLE, receplaculum.

Common, commune, containing many flowers and their fruit.Dotted, punctalum, sprinkled with hollow dots.Hairy, pilosum.

Chaffy, paleaceum, dividing the florets by interposed scales.Flat, planum, uith a plane flat surface.Convex, convestum, uith a convex surface.Conical, conicum, round, tapering towards the top.Awl-shapr-d, subulaium, very long, ending in a point.Compound flower, compoHtus flos, with a broad entire recepta-cle, and with sessile florets.Aggregate flower, aggregates fins, with abroad receptacle, with

florets subpetioled.Cyme, cyma, a receptacle elongated into level-topped peduncles,from the same universal centre, but with the partial onesuncertain.Rachis, rachis, a thread-form receptacle connecting the florets

longitudinally into a spike.Spadix, spadix, the receptacle of a PALM" coming out of a spathe,divided into shrubby leaflets.

BULB, lulbus, the hyberoaculum of the plant from the rudiments ofthe past leaves.Solid, solidus, fleshy, undivided within.Coated, tunicatus, a bulb with coat upon coat.Scaled, squamosus, with imbricated scales.Stem-bulb, caulinus, growing on the stem.

petiole-bulb, peliolaris, from the rudiments of a petiole,stipule-bulb, stipularis, made from a stipule,cortical, cnrlicalis, from the films of the bark,leaf-bulb, foliaris, containing leaves, not flowers.floral-bulb, Jioralis, containing flowers, not leaves,common, communis, containing both leaves and flowers.BUD,gemma, the hybernaculuin of a plant, containing the rudimentsof future leaves and flowers.

VERNATION, vcmatio, the disposition of the leaves in the bud.

Conduplicate, conduplicata, the sides of the leaves applied

parallel to each other.Convolute, convolula, spiral like a paper cone.