El-lip´tic-al, oblong and rounded at the ends; longer than oval.

Em´bry-o, the little plant forming a part of the seed, usually consisting of caulicle, one or more cotyledons and a plumule.

Fe´male flow´er, one having pistils only, but no stamens; pistillate flower.

Fer´tile, producing fruit, or reproductive bodies of any kind.

Flo´ret, a single flower of a head or cluster, especially in Compositae.

Glume, one of the outer floral envelopes in grasses or sedges. The term as now used includes the bracts (empty glumes) which subtend a spikelet and the lower of the two bracts subtending the individual flower (flowering or floral glume, lemma).