218 GLOSSARY. 



Gynophore : a stalk raising a pistil above the stamens, as in the Cleome Family, 



p. 276. 



Gyrate : coiled in a circle : same as circinate. 

 Gyrose: strongly bent to and fro. 



Habit : the general aspect of a plant, or its mode of growth. 



Habitat : the situation in which a plant grows in a wild state. 



Hairs: hair-like projections or appendages of the surface of plants. 



Hairy : beset with hairs, especially longish ones. 



Halberd-shaped, or Halberd-headed: see hastate. 



Halved: when appearing as if one half of the body were cut away. 



Hamate or Hamose : hooked ; the end of a slender body bent round. 



Hdmulose : bearing a small hook ; a diminutive of the last. 



Hastate or Hostile : shaped like a halberd ; furnished with a spreading lobe on 



each side at the base ; p. 59, fig. 97. 



Heart-shaped: of the shape of a heart as commonly painted ; p. 58, fig. 90. 

 Heart-wood: the older or matured wood of exogenous trees; p. 153. 

 Helicoid: coiled like a helix or snail-shell. 



Helmet: the upper sepal of Monkshood in this shape, fig. 185, &c. 

 Hemi- (in compounds from the Greek) : half; e. g. Hemispherical, &c. 

 He'micarp : half-fruit, or one carpel of an Umbelliferous plant. 

 Hemitropous or Hemitropal (ovule or seed): nearly same as ampkitropous, p. 123. 

 Hepta- (in words of Greek origin) : seven; as, 

 Heptdgynous: with seven pistils or styles. 



Heptdmerous : its parts in sevens. Heptdndrous : having seven stamens. 

 Herb, p. 20. 



Herbaceous: of the texture of common herbage; not woody; p. 36. 

 Herbarium: the botanist's arranged collection of dried plants; p. 201. 

 Hermaphrodite (flower) : having both stamens and pistils in the same blossom ; 



same as perfect ; p. 89. 



Heterocdrpous : bearing fruit of two sorts or shapes, as in Amphicarpjea. 

 Heterdgamous : bearing two or more sorts of flowers as to their stamens and 



pistils ; as in Aster, Daisy, and Coreopsis. 

 Heteromdrphous : of two or more shapes. 



Heterdtropous, or Heterdtropal (ovule) : the same as amphitropous ; p. 123. 

 Hexa- (in Greek compounds) : six; as 



Hexagonal: six-angled. Hexdgynous: with six pistils or styles. 

 Hexdmerous : its parts in sixes. Hexdndrous: with six stamens. 

 Hexdpterons : six-winged. 

 Hilar: belonging to the hilum. 



Hilum: the scar of the seed; its place of attachment ; p. 122, 135. 

 Hippocre'piform : horseshoe-shaped. 

 Hirsute : hairy with stimsh or beard-like hairs. 



Hispid: bristly; beset with stiff hairs. Hispidulous is a diminutive of it. 

 Hoary : grayish-white ; see canescent, &c. 



Homdgamous : a head or cluster with flowers all of one kind, as in Eupatorium. 

 Homoge'neous : uniform in nature ; all of one kind. 

 Homomdlfoiis (leaves, &c.) : originating all round a stem, but all bent or curved 



round to one side. 



