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Growing larger after flowering. Gray.

Grown together. Gray.

Lying against anything, as one part of a leaf against another leaf. Gray. Accumbent cotyledons have their edges placed against the caulicle. Eaton.

Shaped like a shallow; saucer-shaped; as, an acetabuliform calyx. Gray.

Having small prickles or sharp points. Gray.

The yellow dogtooth violet. Gray.

nts; -- said of stamens; as, adelphous stamens. Usually in composition; as, monadelphous. Gray.

sion of unlike parts. An anther is adnate when fixed by its whole length to the filament. Gray.

Adventitious. Gray.

rowing or existing in earth or water, or underground; as, aërial rootlets, aërial plants. Gray.

rrangement of the petals in a flower bud, as to folding, overlapping, etc.; prefloration. Gray. [Spelt also estivation.]

or on the field. "We drove afield." Milton. How jocund did they drive their team afield! Gray.

A soft, compact stone, of a grayish, greenish, or yellowish color, carved into images by the Chinese, and hence called figure stone, and pagodite. It is probably a variety of pinite.

A grayish green antiseptic powder, consisting of a basic iodide and gallate of bismuth, sometimes used in place of iodoform. [A Trademark]

gypsum, of fine texture, and usually white and translucent, but sometimes yellow, red, or gray. It is carved into vases, mantel ornaments, etc.

A flower bud. Gray.

Axillary; in the fork or axil. Gray.

at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence. Gray. Alternate alligation. See Alligation. -- Alternate angles (Geom.), the internal and angles made by two lines with a third, on opposite sides of it. It the parallels AB, CD, are cut by the line EF, the angles AGH, GHD, as al…

A fleecy cloud formation consisting of large whitish or grayish globular cloudlets with shaded portions, often grouped in flocks or rows.

ephalus), which is believed to be in all cases its true origin. In color it is white, ash-gray, yellow, or black, and often variegated like marble. The floating masses are sometimes from sixty to two hundred and twenty-five pounds in weight. It is wholly volatilized as a white vapor at 212º Fahrenheit, and is highly va…