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_Divaricate._ Widely divergent.

_Divergent._ Inclined away from each other.

_Divided._ Lobed to the base.

_Dorsal._ Upon or relating to the back or outer surface of an organ.

_Drupaceous._ Resembling or of the nature of a drupe.

_Drupe._ A fleshy or pulpy fruit with the inner portion of the pericarp (1-celled and 1-seeded, or sometimes several-celled) hard or stony.

_Drupelet._ A diminutive drupe.

_E-_ or _Ex-_. A Latin prefix having often a privative signification, as _ebracteate_, without bracts.

_Echinate._ Beset with p.r.i.c.kles.

_Effuse._ Very loosely spreading.

_Elater._ A usually spirally marked thread found in the capsules of most Hepaticae.

_Ellipsoidal._ Nearly elliptical; of solids, elliptical in outline.

_Elliptical._ In the form of an ellipse, oval.

_Emarginate._ Having a shallow notch at the extremity.

_Embryo._ The rudimentary plantlet within the seed.

_Endocarp._ The inner layer of a pericarp.

_Endogenous._ Growing throughout the substance of the stem, instead of by superficial layers.

_Entire._ Without toothing or division.

_Ephemeral._ Lasting only for one day.

_Epidermis._ The cuticle or thin membrane covering the outer surface.

_Epigynous._ Growing on the summit of the ovary, or apparently so.

_Epiphyte._ A plant growing attached to another plant, but not parasitic; an air-plant.

_Eporose._ Without pores.

_Equitant._ Astride, used of conduplicate leaves which enfold each other in two ranks, as in Iris.

_Erect._ Vertical; upright as respects the plane of the base.