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o seventy years, according to climate, in attaining maturity, when it produces a gigantic flower stem, sometimes forty feet in height, and perishes. The fermented juice is the pulque of the Mexicans; distilled, it yields mescal. A strong thread and a tough paper are made from the leaves, and the wood has many uses.…

A genus of plants, one species of which (A. Mexicanum) has lavender-blue flowers in dense clusters.

Collected into a rounded head of flowers.

florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.

A flower bud. Gray.

A genus of fleshy Alcyonaria, its polyps somewhat resembling flowers with eight fringed rays. The term was also formerly used for certain species of sponges.

A species of clover with pinkish or white flowers; Trifolium hybridum.

sweet alyssum (A. maritimum), cultivated for bouquets, bears small, white, sweet- scented flowers.

A fragrant flower. Tennyson.

An imaginary flower supposed never to fade. [Poetic]

Unfading, as the poetic amaranth; undying. They only amaranthine flower on earth Is virtue. Cowper.

Characterized by containing the rudiments of both flowers and leaves; -- applied to a bud.

Bearing aments; having flowers arranged in aments; as, amentaceous plants.

A genus of leguminous shrubs, having long clusters of purple flowers; false or bastard indigo. Longfellow.

Destitute of flowers; flowerless.

Of or pertaining to the ancon or elbow. "The olecranon on anconeal process." Flower.

Having perfect and staminate flowers on different plants. -- An`dro*di*o"cism, -di*e"cism (#), n.

The stamens of a flower taken collectively.

Bearing both staminiferous and pistilliferous flowers in the same cluster.

A genus of ericaceous flowering plants of northern climates, of which the original species was found growing on a rock surrounded by water.