_Cylindric._ With an elongated, rounded body of uniform diameter. _Cyme._ A flat-topped flower-cluster, the central flower blooming first, 26. _Deciduous._ Falling off; said of leaves when they fall in autumn, and of floral leaves when they fall before the fruit forms, 23. _Decurrent leaf._ A leaf which extends down the stem below the point of fastening. _Definite annual growth_, 29. _Dehiscence._ The regular splitting open of fruits, anthers, etc. _Dehiscent._ Opening in a regular way, 27, 28. _Deliquescent_, 16, 29. _Deltoid._ Triangular, 21. _Dentate._ Edge notched, with the teeth angular and pointing outward, 22. _Denticulate._ Minutely dentate. _Dichotomous._ Forking regularly by twos, as the branches of the Lilac. _Dilated._ Spreading out; expanding in all directions. _Dioecious._ With stamens and pistils on different plants, 25. _Distichous._ Two-ranked; spreading on opposite sides in one plane; as _leaves_, 18; or _branches_, 19. _Divergent._ Spreading apart. _Divided._ Separated almost to the base or midrib, 23. _Drupe._ A fleshy fruit with a single bony stone. In this book applied to all fruits which, usually juicy, have a single seed, even if not bony, or a bony stone, even if the stone has several seeds, 27. _Dry drupe._ Used when the material surrounding the stone is but slightly fleshy, 27. _Duration of leaves_, 23. _Elliptical._ Having the form of an elongated oval, 20. _Emarginate._ With a notched tip, 22. _Endogenous._ Inside-growing; growing throughout the substance of the stem, 12. _Entire._ With an even edge; not notched, 22. _Enveloping organs._ In a flower, the calyx and corolla which cover the stamens and pistil, 25. _Essential organs._ In a flower, the organs needed to produce seeds; the stamens and pistil, 25. _Evergreen._ Retaining the leaves (in a more or less green condition) through the winter and till new ones appear, 23. _Excurrent._ With the trunk continued to the top of the tree, 16, 29. _Exogenous._ Outside-growing; growing by annual layers near the surface, 11. _Exserted._ Projecting beyond an envelope, as the stamens from a corolla, or the bracts beyond the scales of a cone, 28. _Exstipulate._ Without stipules, 19. _Extra-axillary buds_, 30. _Fasciculated._ In clusters or fascicles, 18. _Feather-veined._ With the veins of a leaf all springing from the sides of the midrib, 20. _Fibrous._ Composed of fine threads or fibers. _Filament._ The stalk of a stamen, 24; any thread-like body. _Flowering._ Having flowers. _Flowers_, 24; clusters of, 26; kinds of, 25. _Folding of leaves in the bud_, 33. _Foliaceous._ Like a leaf in texture or appearance. _Footstalk._ The stem of a leaf (petiole), or the stem of a flower (peduncle). _Forms of leaves_, 20. _Fruit_, 24, 26. _Gamopetalous._ Same as monopetalous, 25. _Glabrous._ Having a smooth surface; free from hairs, bristles, or any pubescence, 23.