GLOSSARY. 



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Hybrid. A mongrel or intermediate species between two others, from which 



it is descended. 

 Hypocrateriform. Salver shaped. With a lube abruptly expanded into a Oat 



border. 



I 



Icosandrous. Having about twenty stamens growing on the calyx and not on 

 the receptacle. Belonging to the class Icosandria. 



Imbricate. Lying over each other like scales, or the shingles of a roof. 



Included. Wholly received or contained in a cavity. The opposite of exserted. 



Incrassatcd. Thickened upward. Larger toward the end. 



Incumbent. Lying against or across. 



Indigenous. Native. Growing originally in a country. 



Indusium. Plural Indusia. The involucre or veil which covers the fruit 

 of ferns. 



Inferior. Lowermost. Used to express the relative situation of the calyx 

 and germ. An inferior flower is one in which the calyx and corolla are 

 below the germ. 



Inflated. Tumid and hollow. Blown up like a bladder. 



Inflorescence. The manner in which the flowers are situated or connected 

 with the plant, and with each other. 



Infundibuliform. Funnel shaped, which see. 



Inserted into. Growing out of. 



Intcrnode. The space between joints. 



Interruptedly pinnate. When smaller leafets are interposed among the prin- 

 cipal ones. 



Involucre, or Involucrum. A sort of general calyx serving for many flowers ; 

 generally situated at the base of an umbel, or head ; as in Conium rnacu- 

 latum. Med. Bot. PI. Jl, and Cornus Jiorida, PI. 28. Also the Indusium. 



Involucel. A partial involucre. 



Irregular corolla. Having its upper and lower sides unlike. 



K 



Keel. The under petal of a papilionaceous flower. Also tte lower side of 



the midrib of a leaf. 

 Keeled. Shaped like a keel. 

 Kernel. The nucleus or seed of a nut. 

 Kidney-shaped. Heart-shaped without the point, and broader than long. 



L 

 Labiate. Having an upper and lower lip, as in flowers of the class Didy- 



namia. 



Laciniate. Cut, torn and jagged. 



Lactescent. Yielding a white, or milky juice, when wounded. 

 Lametlated. In thin plates. 

 Lamina. The border or flat end of a petal, in distinction from its claw. Also 



a thin layer, plate or membrane of any kind. 

 Lanceolate. Spear shaped. Marrow, with both ends acute, as in the leaves 



of Erylliroiiium Americanum. Med. Bot. PI. 58. 

 Lanuginous. Woolly. 

 Lateral. At the side. 



Leafet. A partial leaf. A constituent of a compound leaf. 

 Legume. A pod or seed vessel having its seeds attached to one side or su- 

 ture ; commonly of a long form and not jointed. 

 Leguminous. Bearing legumes. 

 Liber. The inner bark. 

 Ligneous. Woody. 

 Ligulate. Ribbon shaped. A kind of corolla found in compound flowers, 



consisting of a tube at bottom, continued into a long flat portion at top ; 



as in the florets of the Dandelion. 

 Liliaceous. Resembling the lily. 

 Limb. The border or spreading part of a monopetalous corolla 



