Bearing leaflets on each side of a central stalk.

The female organs of a flower, which occupy a position in the centre of the other floral organs. The pistil is generally divisible into the ovary or germen, the style and the stigma.

Or Placental Mammals. See Mammalia .

Quadrupeds which walk upon the whole sole of the foot, like the bears.

Readily capable of change.

The latest portion of the Tertiary epoch.

(in plants): The minute bud between the seed-leaves of newly-germinated plants.

Rocks supposed to have been produced by igneous action in the depths of the earth.