402 GLOSSARY. 



Floret. A little flower. One in an aggregate or compound flower. 



Floscular. A floret in a compound flower which is tubular, not ligulate. 



Follicle. A seed vessel which opens lengthwise or on one side only ; as in 

 dpocynum androsic mi folium. Med. Bot. PI. 36. 



Frond. The leaf of cryptogamous plants. 



Fructification. The flower and fruit with their parts. 



Frutescent. Becoming shrubby. 



Fruticose. Shrubby. 



Fungi. The order of cryptogamous plants to which the mushrooms belong. 



Fungous. Growing rapidly and preternaturally, with a soft texture like the 

 fungi. 



Funnels/taped. Tubular at bottom and gradually expanding at top ; as the 

 flowers of Datum Stramonium. Med. Bot. PI. 1. 



Furfuraceous. Resembling bran. 



Fusiform. Spindle shaped. When a root is large at too and tapers down- 

 ward, as in the carrot and radish. 



G 



Galls. Excrescences caused by the bite of an insect. 



Gemmaceous. Belonging to a bud. Made of the scales of a bud. 



Generic. Belonging to a genus. 



Geniculatc. Beut like a knee. 



Genus. A family of planls agreeing in their flower and fruit. 



Germ. The lower part of the pistil, which afterwards becomes the fruit. 



Germination. The sprouting of a seed. 



Gibbous. Swelled out, commonly on one side. 



Glabrous. Smooth, as it regards hairiness or pubescence. 



Gland. A small roundish appendage, apparently performing some function 



of secretion or excretion. 



Glandular pubescence. Hairs tipped with little heads or glands. 

 Glaucous. Sea green. Pale blueish green. 

 Glume. The scales, valves or chaff, which make the calyx and corolla of 



grasses. 



Glutinous. Adhesive, viscid, covered with an adhesive fluid. 

 Graminn. Grasses and grass like plants. 

 Gramineous. Resembling grasses. 

 Granular. Formed of grains, or covered with grains. 

 Gymnospermous. Having naked seeds. 

 Gynandrous. Having the stamens growing on the pistils. 



H 



Habit. The general external appearance of a plant, by which it is known at 



sight. 



Halberd shaped. See Hastate. 

 Hastate. Shaped like a halberd. It differs from arroiv shaped in having the 



barbs or lateral portions more distinct and divergent. 

 Head. A dense, round collection of flowers, which are nearly sessile. 

 Helmet. The concave upper lip of a labiate flower. 

 Heptandroui. Having seven stamens. 

 Herb. All that portion of a plant which is not included in the root or fructi-. 



fication; as the stem, leaves, &.c. 

 Herbaceous. Not woody. 

 Hermaphrodite. See Perfect. 

 Hexandrous. With six stamens. 

 Hilum. The scar or mark on a seed, where it was attached to the plant or 



seed vessel. 



Hirsute. Rough with hairs. 

 Hispid. Bristly. Move than hirsute. 

 Hooded. See Cucullale. 

 Horn. See Spur. 



