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HORTUS JAMAICENSI3-. 



GrLUtfcfoS-ITAS. Glutinosity or glueiness. 



Gramija. Grasses. The fifth family, and 

 the second nation, tribe, or cast in Lin- 

 neus's General Division of the Vegeta- 

 ble-Kingdom. Tiie fourteenth order in 

 the Fragments of a Natural Method in 

 Jlulos. Botan. and the fourth of the Na- 

 tural Orders at the end of Gen. PI In 

 the Artificial System, most of the grasses 

 are contained in the second order of the 

 fifth class. 



GrRAKULA'fA radix. A granulate root, con- 

 sisting of several little tubers or fleshy 

 knobs, resembling grains of corn. 



GvMNOSPtR.vA. A plant bearing naked 

 seeds, in opposition to that which has 

 the seeds inclosed in a capsule or other 

 vessel. 



QYMNOSPERMIA. The name of the first or- 

 der in the class Didynumia, in Linneus's 

 Artificial Arrangement ; cotnpn hending 

 those plants which have four stamens, of 

 which the two middle ones are shorter 

 \\ym\ the two outer ones, within a ringent 

 flower, succeeded by four naked seeds. 

 These are the same with the Labia /of 

 Tournefort ; and the Vefticillata of Ray, 

 and Linneusin his Natural Orders. See 

 Didy.r.aniia and Angiospermia. 



Gynandkia. The name of the twentieth 

 class in the Linnean Artificial system, 

 containing all plants with hermaphrodite 

 flowers, which have the stamens growing 

 upon tin- style ; or else having an elon- 

 gate receptacle bearing both stamens 

 smd st\ les. This class has been consider- 

 ably reduced by some modern reformers, 

 and the plants referred to other classes. 

 Others have entirely dismissed it from 

 the sexual system-. The reduction ap- 

 pears reasonable ; but the singularity of 

 the order Diandria surely may demand 

 a separate class for itself. 



HaM-US. A book 



IJAMOSUS. Hooked. A bristle curved at 

 the end 



HASTATE leaf. Resembling the head of a 

 halbert. Triangular, hollowed at the 

 base, and on the sides, with the angles 

 spreading. 



Hatchet-form. See Dofabrifbrmt-. 



Hf.dge-hoggf.d. Beset with prickles. 



Hf.dge-hog-hooki d. A spike beset with 

 prickles which are hooked t the end. 



Helmet. The upper lip of a ringent co* 

 roll a. 



Hi-ptandria. The seventh class in the sys-- 

 tem.of Linheus, comprehending those 

 plants which have seven stamens to the 

 flowers. 



Hermaphrodite flower. Having both an- 

 ther and stigma. An Hermaphrodite 

 plant is that which has only hermaphro- 

 dite flowers. 



Hesperidf.e. The name of the forty-first 

 order in Linneus's Fragments of a Natu- 

 ral Method; containing only three ge- 

 nera Citrus, Styrax, Garcinia. 



Hexagynia. One of the orders in the ninth 

 and thirteenth classes of the Linnean. 

 system ; containing those plants which 

 have six st3"Ies in the flowers 



Hfxandkia. The name of the sixth class 

 in Linneus's system ; comprehending 

 those plants which have hermaphrodite 

 flowers with six equal stamens. This is 

 a natural class, nearly the same with the 

 Lilia ov. Liliaceous plants of other wri- 

 ters; and contains a great part of the 

 sixth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh orders 

 in Linneus's Natural Arrangement, with 

 the admixture *f some othi 



Hi x petaI.oides. Six potaled. 



Hi-xaphyi.lus. Six leaves. 



Hjlum. The eye commonly so called in 

 the bean. The external mark or scar of 

 the umbilical chord on some seeds, 

 where they adhere to the pericarp. 



HlRSUTUS. Hirsute, rough with hair, 

 shaggy. 



HlRTUS. Rough haired. 



Hispidus. Hispid. Beset with stiff bristles. 



Hoi.ERACEjE. Holeracea , commonly writ- 

 ten Oleracea (from (litis, anciently Ho- 

 lies, a pi it -herb). The name of the twelfth 

 order in Linneus's Natural Orders; and 

 the fifty-third in his Fragments of a Na- 

 tural Aleiiiod, containing Spinach, Beet, 



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