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Glossary.
Awn - a bristlelike appendage.
Bisexual - having both sexes present and functional in the one flower.
Bract - a much reduced leaf, particularly the small or scalelike leaves
in a flower cluster.
Calyx - the outer whorl of the perianth composed of the sepals.
Compound - two or more similar parts in one organ, i.e., a leaf composed of
several leaflets.
Corolla - inner whorl of the perianth composed of the petals.
Deciduous - falling at the end of one season of growth or life, as the
leaves of nonevergreen trees. Some trees and shrubs are
deciduous throughout the year.
Dioecious - with storninate and pistellate flowers on different plants.
Entire - leaf with a continuous margin; not in any way indented; whole.
Estipulate - without stipules.
Evergreen - plants which are green throughout the year.
Filament - the stalk of the stamen which is terminated by the anther.
Floret - individual and very small flowers of the Compositae and Gramineae.
Frond - leaves of ferns (or palms).
Glume - one of two sterile bracts at the base of most grass spiketels.
Inflorescence - a flower cluster or flowering branch.
Lenima - the lower of the two bracts immediately enclosing the flower.
Lobed - an organ part, i.e., petal, sepal or leaf parts that represent a
division of the organ.
Locule - a compartment.
Mealy -
Monoecious - with storninate and pistellate flowers on the same plant.