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INTRODUCTION TO BOTANY.
Fleshy, camosum. Euphorbiacese.
Horn}'^, corneum. Tough, elastic, hard like horn. Palm^,
Aristolochia, Rubiaccas.
Leathery, cartilaginous, corlaceum, cartilag'meum, dense
camosum. Tough like leather, or a cartilage. Umbel-
life rse.
Transparent, pellucidum. Oryza saliva.
Opake, opacum. Triticum.
51 Lobed, lohaiiim.
Three-lobed, trilohatum. Coccoloba, Lontarus,
Five-lobed, quinquelobatum. Aquilicia.
Creviced, rimosum. Having more or less deep incisions,
into which folds of the seed-covers are inserted. Uvaria,
Anona.
*f[ Large, magnum. Relatively to the embryo. Graminef)e,
Umbelliferae, Ranunculacea?.
Thick, crassum. Having a notable thickness. Graminese,
Hydrophyllum.
Thin, tenue. Labiatae, Rosaceae, Thymeleae.
^ White, alhuvi. In most plants.
Green, viride. Viscum album.
5[ Hollow, cavum. Having another internal cavity besides
that containing the embryo. Cocos, Myristica.
Wrinkled, corrugatum, coniortuplicatum. Folded together
in different senses along Vi-ith the embryo. Convol-
vulus.
Hile-bearing, hiliferum. Bearing the hile. Abietideae,
Cupressideae, Taxidese.
Chorion.
A pulpy liquor which appears io form the whole sidjstance of
the kernel before its feamdation, and disappears before its
maturity.
Amnios.
A trausparejit gelatinous or emulsive liquor that is not io be
ieen before fecwidation, in which the embryo swims, and
ivhich appears to serve for its nourishment ; the concrete residuum
forming the perisperrn. Cocoa.
Naked, Amnios nudum.
Enclosed, inclusum. Enclosed in a sac.
Embryo.
Proper seed. Heart of the seed, Corculum, Cor seminis.
The rudiment of the new plant. PI. 15, fig, 22 d; pi. 18,
fig. 20 f ; 22 a.