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INDEX AND DICTIONARY 



Glumes : the chaffy bracts oi- scales which make ' 



the coverings of the flowers of Grasses, I 



Sedges, &c. 

 Gourd-Fruit, 77. 

 Grafting, 56. 

 Grain, 78, 79. 



Granular : composed of small particles or grains. 

 Growth, 89. 

 Gymnospermous (naked-seeded), Gymnosper- 



mous Plants, 76, 97. 

 Gynandrous : stamens borne on the pistil or 



style, as in the Orchis Family. 



Hairy : bearing or covered with hairs, especially 



rather long ones. 

 Halberd-shaped, 48. 

 Hastate : same as halberd-shaped, 48. 

 Head, 61. 

 Heart-shaped, 48. 

 Heart-wood, 43. 



Helmet : a name giA'en to the upper sepal of Ac- 

 onite (Fig. 254), &c. 

 Herbaceous, 37. 

 Herbarium : the botanist's collection of dried 



plants. 

 Herbs, 26. 

 Hilum : the scar of the seed, or point by which 



it is attached, 83. 

 Hirsute : hairy with stiff or beard-like hairs. 

 Hispid : bearing still stiffer and stouter hairs or 



bristles. 

 Hoary : grayish-white, or covered with a fine 



and close whitish down. 

 Hooded : sliaped like a hood or cowl ; concave 



or arched. 

 Horny : having about the texture of horn. 

 Hybrid : a cross between two species. 



Imbricate or Imbricated : the parts overlapping ; 



some of them outside and others inside in 



the bud. 

 Imperfect FloAvers, 68. 



Incised : irregularly and rather deeply cut, 49. 

 Included : enclosed ; not sticking out. 

 Incomplete Flowers, 67. 

 Incurved : curving inwards. 

 Indefinite : too numerous to be readily counted, 



and not uniform in number. 

 Indehiscent: not splitting open, 78. 

 Indigenous : native to the country. 

 Inferior : growing beneath some other organ ; as 



the calyx beneath the ovary, 75. 



Inflated : bladder-like, as if blown up. 



Inflexed : bent inwards. 



Inflorescence, 58. 



Inoculating, 56. 



Inserted : borne on, or attached to, 71, 75. 



Insertion : the place or the mode of the attach- 

 ment of anv organ to that which bears it. 



Interruptedly pinnate, 52. 



Inversely heart-shaped, 49. 

 " lance-shaped, 47. 

 " ovate, 47. 



Involucel, 62. 



Involucre, 62. 



Involute : Avith the end or edges rolled inwards. 



Irregular Flowers, or Corolla, &c., 71, 72. 



Jagged, 49. 



Jointed : separating by a joint, or dividing across 

 into two or more pieces. 



Keel : a projecting ridge on the under sui'face of 

 a leaf, as of Day-Lily, &c. The two lower 

 petals of a papilionaceous corolla united are 

 also termed the Keel, or Keel Petals, 141. 



Keeled : furnished with a keel or projecting 

 ridge on the lower side. 



Kernel of a seed, 83. 



Key, or Key-Fruit, 78, 79. 



Kidney-shaped, 48. 



Labiate : two-lipped, 72. 



Laeiniate : slaslied ; cut into narrow and iiTCgu- 



lar lobes. 

 Lance-linear, 47. 

 Lance-oblong, 47. 

 Lanceolate or Lance-shaped, 46. 

 Lateral : belonging to, or borne on, the side. 

 Leaflets : the pieces of a compound leaf, 51. 

 Leaf-buds : buds which develop lea\'es. 

 Leaf-scars, 26. 

 Leaves, 6, 43. 

 Legume : a pea-pod, 80. 

 Limb of a corolla, tS:.c., 72. 

 Lips, 72. 



Linear, 46. Linenr-lanceolate, 47. 

 Lobed : having lobes, 49, 50. 

 Lobes : any strong divisions of a leaf, &c., 49. 

 Lower side of a flower : that which looks away 



from the stem, and towards the bract. 

 Lyre-shaped, a pinnatifid leaf with the end lobe 



largest and rounded, as in Radish (Fig. 57), 



28. 



