Granular, granulosa. Covered with very small grains or granules; minutely mealy. 

 Granuliferous: granule-bearing. 



Gynmospenns. Plants with naked (uncovered) ovules, such as the conifers. 



Gynandroiis. Stamens adnate to the pistil. 



Gynecandrous. Having staminate and pistillate flowers in the same spikelet, the 

 latter above the former. 



Gynohasc. An enlargement of the torus or receptacle to form a platform or disk 

 upon which the ovary rests. 



Gynohasic. Applied to a style which adheres by its base to a prolongation up- 

 wards of the torus between carpels. 



Gynoeciiim. That part of the flower in which fertilization takes place and in 

 which the seeds develop; the total of structures, including carpels and accessory 

 parts, occurring on the axis of the flower morphologically above the stamens or 

 androecium. 



Gynophore. The prolonged stipe of a pistil, as in Cleome. 



Habit. The growth form of the plant. 



Habitat. The precise set of environmental conditions in which the plant occurs. 



Halophyte. A plant of salty or alkaline soils. Halophytic (adj.). 



Hamate. Said of a spine which is hooked at the tip. (fig. 786). 



Hastate. Said of arrow-shaped leaves with basal lobes that spread or extend down- 

 ward and outward (figs. 424, 787). 



Haustoria. The suckerlike attachment organs of parasites like Cuscuta. 



Head. A dense globular cluster of sessile or subsessile flowers arising essentially 

 from the same point on the peduncle; capitulum. (fig. 788). 



Hemi-. Prefix meaning half. 



Herb. A plant, either annual, perennial, or biennial, of which the parts above- 

 ground are not woody. 



Herbaceous. Having the structure or texture of an herb, not woody. 



Herbage. All of the aboveground, non-woody part of a plant. 



Hermaphrodite. With stamens and pistil in the same flower, 



Heterogamous. Producing two or more kinds of flowers. 



Heterosporous. Having spores of two sizes or shapes. 



Heterostylic. Having long styles in some flowers and short styles in others on the 

 same plant, or in diff'erent plants of the same species. 



Hibernacle, hibernaculum. A winter bud. 



Hilum. The scar of the point of attachment of a seed. 



Hippocrepiform. Horseshoe-shaped. 



Hirsute. Clothed with long, shaggy hairs, often rough to the touch (fig. 785). 



Hirsutulous. Minutely hirsute. 



Hirtellous. Minutely hirsute. 



Hispid. Clothed with stiflfish hairs that are sometimes spinelike (fig. 785). 



Hispidulous. Having fine, short, stiff" hairs. 



Homo-. A Greek prefix denoting all alike or of one sort. 



Hood. Cf. cucuUate. 



Host. A plant that nourishes a parasite. 



Hyaline. Of thin, membranous, transparent or translucent texture. 



Hydathode. An epidermal structure, usually marginal or terminal, which excretes 

 water. 



Hydrophyte. Partially or wholly immersed water plant. Hydrophilic, hydrophil- 

 ous: dwelling in wet places or water; pollinated by water. 



Hygroscopic. Susceptible of extending or shrinking on the application or absence 

 of water or vapor. 



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