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The plant costmary, which was formerly much used for flavoring ale.

A plant (Macrochloa tenacissima) of North Africa; also, its fiber, used in paper making.

A kind of seaweed; pl. the class of cellular cryptogamic plants which includes the black, red, and green seaweeds, as kelp, dulse, sea lettuce, also marine and fresh water confervæ, etc.

The ground-plan of a railway or other road, in distinction from the grades or profile.

living; being in a state in which the organs perform their functions; as, an animal or a plant which is alive.

ic base, especially one of a class of substances occurring ready formed in the tissues of plants and the bodies of animals.

The similar plant Anchusa officinalis; bugloss; also, the American puccoon.

An herbaceous plant of the nightshade family (Physalis alkekengi) and its fruit, which is a well flavored berry, the size of a cherry, loosely inclosed in a enlarged leafy calyx; -- also called winter cherry, ground cherry, and strawberry tomato. D. C. Eaton.

A name popularly given to the officinal valerian, and to some other plants.

Alignment; position in a straight line, as of two planets with the sun. Whewell. The allineation of the two planets. C. A. Young.

A genus of plants, including the onion, garlic, leek, chive, etc.

Fertilization of the pistil of a plant by pollen from another of the same species; cross-fertilization.

A genus of succulent plants, some classed as trees, others as shrubs, but the greater number having the habit and appearance of evergreen herbaceous plants; from some of which are prepared articles for medicine and the arts. They are natives of warm countries.

Of or pertaining to the Alps, or to any lofty mountain; as, Alpine snows; Alpine plants.

A genus of plants of the Mallow family. It includes the officinal marsh mallow, and the garden hollyhocks.

A genus of cruciferous plants; madwort. The sweet alyssum (A. maritimum), cultivated for bouquets, bears small, white, sweet- scented flowers.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the amaranth is the type.

A genus of ornamental annual plants (Amaranthus) of many species, with green, purplish, or crimson flowers.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, an order of plants differing from the lily family chiefly in having the ovary below the

A family of plants much esteemed for their beauty, including the narcissus, jonquil, daffodil, agave, and others.