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e upper side of a branch, leaf, or petiole, and the stem or branch from which it springs. Gray.

Situated in the axis of anything; as an embryo which lies in the axis of a seed. Gray.

Situated in, or rising from, an axil; of or pertaining to an axil. "Axillary buds." Gray.

ongitudinal support, on which organs or parts are arranged; the central line of any body. Gray.

Pulpy throughout, like a berry; -- said of fruits. Gray.

Having short, stiff hairs, often barbed at the point. Gray.

l varieties occur in the neighborhood of Carrara and in Corsica. It commonly shows a dark gray or bluish ground traversed by veins.

A mineral of a white or gray color, occurring massive or crystallized. It is a compound of the carbonates of barium and calcium.

Lydian stone, or black jasper, a variety of siliceous or flinty slate, of a grayish or bluish black color. It is employed to test the purity of gold, the amount of alloy being indicated by the color left on the stone when rubbed by the metal.

ader in the Roman Catholic Counter Reformation, following the Reformation; -- called also graybeard, longbeard.

A double sulphide of antimony and iron, of a dark steel-gray color.

Having two callosities or hard spots. Gray.

Twice paired, as when a petiole forks twice. Gray.

Divided into two cells or compartments; as, a bilocular pericarp. Gray.

Double; growing in pairs or couples. Gray.

ed into two parts almost to the base, as a leaf; consisting of two parts or subdivisions. Gray.

With two partitions or septa. Gray.

Doubly ternate, as when a petiole has three ternate leaflets. -- Bi*ter"nate*ly, adv. Gray.

A species of Ambrosia (A. artemisiæfolia); Roman worm wood. Gray.

ean black grouse (Tetrao tetrix, Linn.); - - so called by sportsmen. The female is called gray hen. See Heath grouse.