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E.XSERTED. Prolonged beyond the surrounding organs, as stamens from the corolla; 



not included. 

 ExsTlPULATE. Lacking stipules. 



Falcate. Sickle- or scythe-shaped. 



Farinose. Covered with mealy powder. 



Fascicle. A compact cluster or bundle. 



Fastigiate. With stems or branches erect and close together. 



Ferruginous. Rust-colored. 



Filament. The stalk of a stamen, usually bearing an anther at its apex. 



Filiform. Thread-like; slender and terete. 



Fimbriate. Fringed. 



FlMBRlLLATE. Minutely fringed. 



Flabellate. Fan-shaped. 



Flexuous. Having a more or less zigzag form. 



Floccose. With tufts of soft woolly hairs. 



Floret. Individual flower of Compositae and grasses. 



FoLlACEOUS. Having the form or texture of a leaf; leafy. 



Follicle. A simple, dry dehiscent fruit, producing several or many seeds and com- 

 posed of one carpel, which splits along one suture. 



Free. Said of floral organs which are not united with other floral organs. 



Fugacious. Falling or withering away very early; ephemeral. 



Funnelform. Said of a corolla with the tube gradually widening upward into the 

 spreading limb. 



Fusiform. Spindle-shaped, narrowed toward the ends from an enlarged middle. 



Geniculate. Bent abruptly like a knee. 



Gibbous. Swollen on one side. 



GlabraTE. Nearly glabrous, or becoming glabrous. 



Glabrous. Not hairy; free from epidermal hairs. 



Glandular. Bearing glands or gland-like appendages or trichomes. 



Glaucescent. Becoming glaucous. 



Glaucous. Covered with a "bloom"; bluish white or bluish gray. 



Glomerule. An inflorescence condensed in the form of a small head or cluster. 



Glume. A chaff -like bract; particularly one of the two empty bracts at the base of 



the spikelet in grasses, or the single bract of sedges. 

 Glutinous. Sticky; mucilaginous; covered with a sticky exudate. 

 Grain. A dry, unilocular, 1 -seeded, indehiscent, superior fruit of grasses, in which 



the thin pericarp is adherent throughout to the seed; a caryopsis. 

 Granular, Granulose. Composed of or appearing as if covered with minute grains. 

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



sedges, the upper flowers pistillate and the lower staminate. 



Halberd-shaped. Hastate. 



Hastate. Halberd-shaped; like an arrowhead, but with the basal lobes pointing out- 

 ward nearly at right angles. 



Head. A type of inflorescence in which numerous small flowers are crowded upon a 

 common receptacle; the inflorescence or capitulum of Compositae; a compact 

 inflorescence. 



Herb. A plant that has no perennial woody stem above ground, thus distinguished 

 from a shrub or tree. 



Hirsute. Pubescent with rather coarse or stiff hairs. 



HiRSUTULOUS. Slightly hirsute. 



HiRTELLOUS. Minutely hirsute. 



Hispid. Beset with rigid hairs or bristles. 



HispiDULOUS. Minutely hispid. 



Hyaline. Thin and translucent. 



HypaNTHIUM. The cup-shaped or tubular receptacle on which the perianth and the 

 stamens are inserted. 



Hypogynium. a structure supporting the ovary in some sedges. 



