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A provisional name for a plant which has not had its flowers botanically examined, and therefore has not been referred to its proper genus.

One who adheres; one who adheres; one who follows a leader, party, or profession; a follower, or partisan; a believer in a particular faith or church.

to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.

ye (Adonis autumnalis); -- named from Adonis, whose blood was fabled to have stained the flower.

From a higher to a lower situation; downward; down, to or on the ground. [Archaic] "Thrice did she sink adown." Spenser.

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

Not having visible organs of reproduction, as flowerless plants; agamous.

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.

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

Exchange business; also, stockjobbing; the maneuvers of speculators to raise or lower the price of stocks or public funds. Vanity and agiotage are to a Parisian the oxygen and hydrogen of life. Landor.

A flower bud. Gray.

e color, and eyes with deep red pupil and pink or blue iris. The term is also used of the lower animals, as white mice, elephants, etc.; and of plants in a whitish condition from the absence of chlorophyll. Amer. Cyc.

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.

merica. It has a shorter and broader snout than the crocodile, and the large teeth of the lower jaw shut into pits in the upper jaw, which has no marginal notches. Besides the common species of the southern United States, there are allied species in South America.

Below; in a lower part. "Aloft, and then alow." Dryden.

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

A cloud formation similar to cirro-stratus, but heavier and at a lower level.

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