=Podocárpus Japónica=, Sieb. (JAPAN PODOCARPUS.) Leaves alternate, crowded, flat, linear-lanceolate, elongated, quite sharp-pointed, narrowed to a short though distinct petiole, and continued down the stem by two ridges; leaves not 2-ranked, large, 4 to 8 in. long and ½ in. wide when growing in perfection; in specimens grown in this region, 2 to 5 in. long and ¼ in. wide; midrib forms a ridge on both sides; upper side dark glossy green; lower side with two broad whitish lines. A beautiful, erect-growing, small tree; from Japan; about hardy in central New Jersey; needs some protection in Massachusetts. GENUS =109. SALISBÙRIA.= Leaves broad, simple, alternate, stipulate, deciduous, deeply cut or lobed at the apex, alike on both surfaces, with long petioles. Flowers dioecious; staminate ones in catkins, pistillate ones either solitary or in clusters of a few each. Fruit a nut with a drupaceous covering. [Illustration: S. adiantifòlia.] =Salisbùria adiantifòlia=, Sm. (GINKGO TREE.) Leaves parallel-veined, fan-shaped, with irregular lobes at the end, thick, leathery, with no midrib. Fruit globular or ovate, 1 in. long, on long, slender stems. A very peculiar and beautiful large tree, 50 to 100 ft. high; from Japan. Hardy throughout, and should be more extensively cultivated than it is. GLOSSARY OF BOTANICAL TERMS AND INDEX TO PART I. The numbers refer to the pages where the illustrations appear or where fuller definitions of the words are given. _Abortive._ Defective or barren; not producing seeds. _Abrupt base of leaf_, 21. _Abruptly pinnate._ Pinnate, without an odd leaflet at the end; even-pinnate, 20. _Acerose._ Slender; needle-shaped, 20. _Acorn_, 27. _Acuminate._ Taper-pointed, 22. _Acute._ Terminating in a well-defined angle, usually less than a right angle, 22. _Adventitious buds_, 31. _Alternate._ Not opposite each other; as the leaves of a stem when arranged one after the other along the branch, 18. _Angulated._ Edge with such sudden bends as to form angles. _Annual layer of wood_, 13. _Anther._ The essential part of a stamen of a flower; the part which contains the pollen, 24. _Apetalous._ Said of a flower which has no corolla, 25. _Apex._ The point or summit, as the point of a leaf. _Apple-pome._ A fruit like the apple, with seeds in horny cells, 27. _Appressed._ Pressed close to the stem or other part, 19. _Ariled._ Seed with a somewhat membranous appendage, sometimes surrounding it, and attached to one end. _Aromatic._ With an agreeable odor. _Arrangement of flowers_, 26; of leaves, 18. _Astringent._ That which contracts or draws together muscular fiber; the opposite of laxative. _Auriculate._ Furnished with ear-shaped appendages, 21. _Awl-shaped._ Like a shoemaker's curved awl; subulate, 21. _Awned._ Furnished with a bristle-shaped appendage, 22. _Axil._ The angle between the leafstalk and the twig, 14.