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Puttyroot :: Puttyroot (n.) An American orchidaceous plant (Aplectrum hyemale) which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called also Adam-and-Eve..

Cry :: Cry (v. i.) A loud utterance; especially, the inarticulate sound produced by one of the lower animals; as, the cry of hounds; the cry of wolves..

Cauliculus :: Cauliculus (n.) In the Corinthian capital, one of the eight stalks rising out of the lower leafage and terminating in leaves which seem to support the volutes. See Illust. of Corinthian order, under Corinthian..

Cryptogamia :: Cryptogamia (n.) The series or division of flowerless plants, or those never having true stamens and pistils, but propagated by spores of various kinds..

Commons :: Commons (n. pl.) The House of Commons, or lower house of the British Parliament, consisting of representatives elected by the qualified voters of counties, boroughs, and universities..

Sporadical :: Sporadic (a.) Occuring singly, or apart from other things of the same kind, or in scattered instances; separate; single; as, a sporadic fireball; a sporadic case of disease; a sporadic example of a flower..

Androgynal :: Androgynal (a.) Bearing both staminiferous and pistilliferous flowers in the same cluster.

Chlorosis :: Chlorosis (n.) A disease in plants, causing the flowers to turn green or the leaves to lose their normal green color..

Phyton :: Phyton (n.) One of the parts which by their repetition make up a flowering plant, each being a single joint of a stem with its leaf or leaves; a phytomer..

Erica :: Erica (n.) A genus of shrubby plants, including the heaths, many of them producing beautiful flowers..

Inversion :: Inversion (n.) Said of double counterpoint, when an upper and a lower part change places..

Cobaea :: Cobaea (n.) A genus of climbing plants, native of Mexico and South America. C. scandens is a conservatory climber with large bell-shaped flowers..

Spadiceous :: Spadiceous (a.) Bearing flowers on a spadix; of the nature of a spadix.

Geminiflorous :: Geminiflorous (a.) Having the flowers arranged in pairs.

Catalpa :: Catalpa (n.) A genus of American and East Indian trees, of which the best know species are the Catalpa bignonioides, a large, ornamental North American tree, with spotted white flowers and long cylindrical pods, and the C. speciosa, of the Mississipi valley; -- called also Indian bean..

Clinanthium :: Clinanthium (n.) The receptacle of the flowers in a composite plant; -- also called clinium.

Ixia :: Ixia (n.) A South African bulbous plant of the Iris family, remarkable for the brilliancy of its flowers..

Perfect :: Perfect (a.) Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; -- said of flower.

Esoteric :: Esoteric (a.) Designed for, and understood by, the specially initiated alone; not communicated, or not intelligible, to the general body of followers; private; interior; acroamatic; -- said of the private and more recondite instructions and doctrines of philosophers. Opposed to exoteric..

Cuckoobud :: Cuckoobud (n.) A species of Ranunculus (R. bulbosus); -- called also butterflower, buttercup, kingcup, goldcup..

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