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INTRODUCTION TO BOTANY. 41
'Nectar. Juices secreted by glands placed upon the organs
of fructification.
Glaucous bloom, Pollen glancum. Pruina. A substance
like wax, upon certain leaves and fruits, to preserve them
from moisture.
Milk, Lac. An emulsive liquid, usually white and opake.
4. Pace.
Primitive, PlantcB primigenia;. Species originally created,
and not formed by crossing from others.
Mule, hyhides. Species not originally created, but
formed by the pollen of one species being absorbed by the
female organ of another species. Veronica hybrida, Primula
cortusoides, Delphinium hybridum, Sorbus hybrida.
5. Consistence.
Spumescent, Plantcc spumescentcs. Like a scum. Spumaria
Mucilago.
Gelatinous, gelatinoscR. Like jelly. Tremella.
YxxngowS', fungos(E. Solid, elastic, soft. Boletus igniarius.
Corky, suherosce. Solid, elastic, hard. Many Fungi.
Fleshy, carnosce. Thick, juicy, but firm. Tuber cibarium.
Memb)'anous, memlranacece, memhranosce. In a thin
flake, flexible, rather juicy. Many ulvse and fuci.
Leathery,*
Many fuci.
coriacece. Tough, flexible, rather thick.
Horny, cornefE. Dry,
transparent. Many fuci.
hard, compact, flexible, semi-
Crustaceous, cn/stacece. Dry, hard, friable, in form of
a crust. Lepraria, Variolaria.
Filamentous, jilameniosce. In long, slender threads,
either simple or branched. Conferva.
Herbaceous, herhacece. Stem and branches do not form
a solid wood, but perish after a few months' vegetation,
and are covered with a bark, usually green, of the same
consistence as the leaves.
Woody, lignoscB. Stem and branches at first weak like
herbs,
years.
but form a solid wood, and vegetate for several
Succulent, succulenicB. Thick, juicy, with much cellular
texture, and few fibres. Sedum, Sempervivum leciorum.
yi\\k.y,lnctescentes. Containing a milky juice. Euphorbia,
Lactuca virosa, Sonchus.