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_Divaricate._ Widely divergent.
_Divergent._ Inclined away from each other.
_Divided._ Lobed to the base.
_Dorsal._ Upon or relating to the back or outer surface of an organ.
_Drupaceous._ Resembling or of the nature of a drupe.
_Drupe._ A fleshy or pulpy fruit with the inner portion of the pericarp (1-celled and 1-seeded, or sometimes several-celled) hard or stony.
_Drupelet._ A diminutive drupe.
_E-_ or _Ex-_. A Latin prefix having often a privative signification, as _ebracteate_, without bracts.
_Echinate._ Beset with p.r.i.c.kles.
_Effuse._ Very loosely spreading.
_Elater._ A usually spirally marked thread found in the capsules of most Hepaticae.
_Ellipsoidal._ Nearly elliptical; of solids, elliptical in outline.
_Elliptical._ In the form of an ellipse, oval.
_Emarginate._ Having a shallow notch at the extremity.
_Embryo._ The rudimentary plantlet within the seed.
_Endocarp._ The inner layer of a pericarp.
_Endogenous._ Growing throughout the substance of the stem, instead of by superficial layers.
_Entire._ Without toothing or division.
_Ephemeral._ Lasting only for one day.
_Epidermis._ The cuticle or thin membrane covering the outer surface.
_Epigynous._ Growing on the summit of the ovary, or apparently so.
_Epiphyte._ A plant growing attached to another plant, but not parasitic; an air-plant.
_Eporose._ Without pores.
_Equitant._ Astride, used of conduplicate leaves which enfold each other in two ranks, as in Iris.
_Erect._ Vertical; upright as respects the plane of the base.
_Erose._ As if gnawed.
_Exalb.u.minous._ Without alb.u.men.
_Excurrent._ Running out, as a nerve of a leaf projecting beyond the margin.
_Exfoliating._ Cleaving off in thin layers.
_Exogenous._ Growing by annular layers near the surface; belonging to the Exogens.
_Exserted._ Projecting beyond an envelope, as stamens from a corolla.
_Extrorse._ Facing outward.
_Falcate._ Scythe-shaped, curved and flat, tapering gradually.
_Farinaceous._ Containing starch, starch-like.
_Farinose._ Covered with a meal-like powder.
_Fascicle._ A close bundle or cl.u.s.ter.
_Fastigiate_ (branches). Erect and near together.
_Ferruginous._ Rust-color.
_Fertile._ Capable of producing fruit, or productive, as a flower having a pistil, or an anther with pollen.
_Fibrillose._ Furnished or abounding with fine fibres.
_Fibrous._ Composed of or resembling fibres. _Fibrous tissue_, a tissue formed of elongated thick-walled cells.
_Fibro-vascular._ Composed of woody fibres and ducts.
_Filament._ The part of a stamen which supports the anther; any thread-like body.
_Filamentous._ Composed of threads.
_Filiferous._ Thread-bearing.
_Filiform._ Thread-shaped; long, slender, and terete.
_Fimbriate._ Fringed.
_Fimbrillate._ Having a minute fringe.
_Fingered._ Digitate.
