Glucose 



Gonidium 



which hydrolyses maltose ; Glu'cose, 

 (1 ) a group of carbohydrates, crystal- 

 lisable and soluble in water, occur- 

 ring in fruits, as grape-sugar, etc., 

 see DEXTROSE, LEVULOSE ; (2) also a 

 commercial term for syrups made 

 from starch or grain ; Glu'coside, 

 (fldos, like), for complex substances 

 which give rise on decomposition 

 to Glucose, such as Amygdalin, 

 Coniferin, Salicin ; ~ En'zyme, a 

 ferment such as Synaptase or 

 Kmulsin. 



Glue, viscid secretion on surface of 

 some plants ; Bud~ =BLASTOCOLLA. 



gluma'ceous (gluma, husk of corn, + 

 aceous), resembling the glumes of 

 grasses, as the perianth-segments 

 of Juncus; Glume, Glu'ma, the 

 chaffy two-ranked members of the 

 inflorescence of grasses and similar 

 plants ; barren ~ , em'pty ~ , glumes 

 which subtend a spikelet, and do 

 not include a flower ; fer'tile ~ .flor'al 

 ~ , flowering ~ , the glume in grasses 

 which includes a flower, the palea ; 

 fruiting ~, the fertile glume at the 

 time of maturity ; ster'ile ~ , a 

 glume which subtends other glumes 

 or has no flower ; glu'mal, charac- 

 terized by having a glume ; Glum- 

 el'la, Glu'meUe, (1) the palea of 

 grasses ; (2) the lodicule of the same 

 (Richard) ; glumellea'nus of or be- 

 longing to a glumella ; Glumel'lule, 

 Ghimdlu'la, (1) = palea; (2) = lodi- 

 cule ; glu'mous, having glumes, as 

 a flower which has a subtending 

 glume. 



Glu'tamin (gluten, glue), an amide 

 allied to asparagin found with 

 it in the juice of beets, etc. ; 

 Glu'ten, a tough protein substance 

 occurring in grain after the removal 

 of the starch ; ~ Cells, of the endo- 

 derm contain oil, but no starch ; 

 Glutin'ium, "the flesh of certain 

 Fungals" (Lindley) ; glu'tinous, 

 glutino'sus, covered with a sticky 

 exudation. 



Gly'case (y\vi<us, sweet), an enzyme, 

 the same as GLUCASE. 



Glycerrhiz'in, or Gly'cion, a saccharine 



matter from the roots of Glycyrr- 

 hiza fjlabra, Linn., liquorice. 



Glycodru'pose (y\vKtis, sweet, + 

 DRUPOSE), a lignocellulose, form- 

 ing the hard concretions in the 

 flesh of pears ; Gly'cogen (yevvdw, 

 I bring forth), a carbohydrate 

 present in quantity in epiplasm, 

 capable of being converted into 

 glucose ; ~ Mass, protoplasm per- 

 meated with glycogen, epiplasm ; 

 Glycolig'nose (lignum, wood), a pre- 

 sumed glucoside, from pinewood. 



Gnaurs, burrs or knotty excrescences 

 on tree-trunks or roots, probably 

 from clusters of adventitious buds. 



gnawed, = EROSUS. 



gnomon'ical, gnomon'icus (yvufj.ui>, the 

 pin of a dial), an appendage when 

 abruptly bent at an angle to its 

 attachment. 



goblet-shaped = CUP-SHAPED. 



Gonang'ium (yovos, offspring, ay-yftov, 

 a vessel), a spherical Colony of 

 Palmetto,, etc., overgrown with 

 thick - walled brown Lichen-hy- 

 phae ; goneoclin'ic (K\LV-TI, a bed), 

 applied to a hybrid which approxi- 

 mates to one parent, and not inter- 

 mediate. 



gongrosi'roid, resembling the genus 

 Gongrosira, Kuetz. ; applied to the 

 resting-stage of Vaucheria. 



gongylo'des (yoyyti\os, round), knob- 

 like ; Gong'ylus (1 ) for round corpus- 

 cles on certain Algae, which become 

 detached, and germinate as separate 

 individuals ; (2) globular bodies 

 in the thallus of Lichens; (3) 

 SPORE, SPORIDIDM, SPEIREMA. 



goniautoi'cous (yovos, offspring, at/ros, 

 self, olKos, a house), the male in- 

 florescence of a Moss, bud-like and 

 axillary on a female branch : 

 Gon'id, proposed abbreviation of 

 GONIDIUM ; Gonidan'gium (elSos, 

 like, ayyelov, a vessel), in a gameto- 

 phyte, the organ which produces 

 a sexual spore or gonidium ; 

 Gonid'iophore (<popi!u, 1 carry), a 

 sporophore which bears a gonidium ; 

 Gonid'ium (1) in Lichens, an algal 

 cell of the thallus ; (2) the same as 



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