Trees of the Northern United States: Their Study, Description and DeterminationApgar, A. C. (Austin Craig)
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Trees of the Northern United States: Their Study, Description and Determination
Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig)
Trees -- North America
_Glands._ Small cellular organs which secrete oily, aromatic, or other
products. They are sometimes sunk in the leaves, etc., as on the
Prickly-ash; sometimes on the surface as small projections; sometimes on
the ends of hairs. The word is also used to indicate small swellings,
whether there is a secretion or not.
_Glandular._ Having glands. _Glandular-hairy._ With glandular-tipped
hairs, 23.
_Glaucous._ Covered with a fine white powder that rubs off, 23.
_Globose._ Spherical in form. _Globular._ Nearly globose.
_Glutinous._ Covered with a sticky gum.
_Hairy._ Having rather long hairs, 23.
_Halberd-shaped_, 21.
_Head._ A compact, rounded cluster of flowers or fruit, 26.
_Heart-shaped._ Ovate, with a notched base; cordate, 21.
_Heart-wood_, 13, 35.
_Herbaceous._ Without woody substance in the stem; like an herb; soft
and leaf-like.
_Hybrid._ An intermediate form of plant between two nearly related
species; formed by the action of the pollen of one upon the pistil of
the other.
_Imbricated._ Overlapping one another like the shingles on a roof, 28.
_Incised._ Irregularly and deeply cut, as the edge of a leaf.
_Incurved._ Gradually curving inward.
_Indefinite annual growth_, 30.
_Indehiscent._ Not splitting open.
_Inflexed._ Bent inward, 33.
_Involucre._ A whorl or set of bracts around a flower, a cluster of
flowers, or fruit, 27.
_Involute._ Rolled inward from the edges, 34.
_Irregular._ Said of a flower which has its corolla of different sized,
shaped, or colored pieces, 25.
_Kernel._ The substance contained within the shell of a nut or the stone
of a fruit.
_Key._ A fruit furnished with a wing, or leaf-like expansion, 28.
_Kidney-shaped._ Broadly heart-shaped, with the apex and basal notch
somewhat rounded.
_Lacerated._ With a margin irregularly notched or apparently torn.
_Laciniate._ Cut into narrow lobes; slashed.
_Lance-shaped._ _Lanceolate._ Like a lance-head in shape, 21.
_Leaf_, 17; arrangement of leaves, 18; bases of, 21; forms of, 20; kinds
of, 19; margins of, 22; parts of, 19; points of, 22; veining, 19.
_Leaflet._ A separate blade of a compound leaf, 20.
_Leafstalk._ The stem of a leaf; petiole, 19.
_Legume._ A pea-like pod, 28.
_Lensform._ _Lenticular._ Thickest in the center, with the edges
somewhat sharp; like a double-convex lens.
_Linear._ Long and narrow, with the edges about parallel, 20.
_Lobe._ The separate, projecting parts of an irregularly edged leaf if
few in number, 22.
_Lobed._ Having lobes along the margin, 22.
_Margin of leaves_, 22.
_Medullary rays_, 13.
_Membranous._ Thin and rather soft, and more or less translucent, 23.
_Midrib._ The central or main rib of a leaf, 19.
_Monoecious._ With both pistillate and staminate flowers on the same
plant, 25.
_Monopetalous._ With the corolla more or less grown together at the
base; gamopetalous, 25.
_Mucronate._ Tipped with a short abrupt point, 22.
_Multiple roots_, 9.
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