GLOSSARY

Alternate - Refers to placement of leaves on branch. Placed singly at different levels on the branch.

Catkins - A delicate, usually hanging spike of flowers

Compound leaf - A leaf with a blade divided into two or more leaflets.

Drupe - A fleshy or pulpy fruit in which the inner portion is hard or stony, enclosing the seed.

Odd-pinnate - A pinnate leaf with a single terminal leaflet.

Opposite - Refers to leaf placement. Opposed to each other on the branch.

Pinnae - The primary divisions of a pinnate leaf.

Pinnate - Descriptive of compound leaves with the leaflets arranged on opposite sides along the axis of the leaf.

Pistillate - Provided with seed bearing organs, but lacking functional stamens with pollen.

Racemes - A spray of flowers which open from the base toward the end.of the stalk.

Serrate - Having sharp teeth, pointing forward.

Simple - In one piece or unit, not compound.

Staminate - Bearing pollen bearing organs but lacking seed Bearing organs.

Stigma - That part of the pistil which receives the pollen.

2-ranked - Two leaves opposite each other on the branchlets. See picture of cypress leaves