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Question 1

Ebracteate

Answer 1

without bracts

Question 2

Echinate

Answer 2

spiny or bristly

Question 3

Elaiosome

Answer 3

oily appendage on seeds-see Macarthuria

Question 4

Ellipsoid

Answer 4

an elliptic solid body

Question 5

Elliptic

Answer 5

oblong and broadest across the middle with narrow rounded ends

Question 6

Emarginate

Answer 6

a shallow notch at the summit as of a leaf

Question 7

Embryo

Answer 7

the young plant still enclosed by the seed coat; consists of plumule, radicle, and one or more cotyledons

Question 8

Endemic

Answer 8

peculiar to the state or country and not native elsewhere, e.g. species endemic to the S.W. Province of W.A.

Question 9

Endosperm

Answer 9

food tissue, usually surrounding the embryo

Question 10

Entire

Answer 10

without teeth or lobes

Question 11

Ephemeral

Answer 11

a short-lived plant

Question 12

Epicalyx

Answer 12

a calvx-like- structure outside but close to the true calyx( e.g. in Malva).

Question 13

Epicarp

Answer 13

the outer layer (skin) of the wall of a fruit

Question 14

Epigynous

Answer 14

applied to a flower when the sepals. petals and stamens are attached above the ovary. i.e. when the ovary is inferior.

Question 15

Epipertalous

Answer 15

inserted upon the corolla. e.g. stamens

Question 16

Equitant

Answer 16

leaves fol

Question 17

Erect

Answer 17

upright•· as of stem

Question 18

Ericoid

Answer 18

heath-like

Question 19

Exserted

Answer 19

projecting beyond, as the stamens beyond the corolla; as the valves in buds of Eucalyptus

Question 20

Exocarp

Answer 20

the outer !aver or ‘skin’ of a pericarp

Question 21

Extrorse

Answer 21

anthers opening outward