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Glochoides. The small points of the pubes of plants. Lin- 

 naeus applies this term only to the Hami triglochoids, three 

 hooked points. 



Glomerata spica. Flowers crowded together in a globular form. 



Gluma. A husk, or chaff, a kind of calyx peculiar to corn 

 and grasses. Ex. Class ii. Order '2. and Class vi. Order 2. 



Glutinositus. Like glue or paste. 



Gramina. Grasses, one of the nine Linnaean tribes of the vege- 

 table kingdom. 



Granulata radix. A root consisting of many little knobs, like 

 seeds of grain, attached to one another by small strings, as 

 in Saxifraga granulata. 



Gymnospermia. Naked seeded, the first Order of the Class 

 Didynamia. Ex. Seeds exposed in ill. of Class xiv. 



Gynandria. The twentieth Class in the Linnaean system. 



H. 



Habitualis character. The character or description of a plant, 

 taken from its habit, which consists in the placentatio, ra- 

 dicatio, ramificatio, foliatio, stipulatio, pubesccntia, inflo- 

 rescentia. 



Habitus. The external appearance ; Linnaeus defines it, the 

 conformity or affinity that congenerous vegetables have to 

 one another, in placentation, radifieation, &c. 



Hamosa seta. Hooked bristle. 



Hastatum folium. A leaf resembling the head of a spear or 

 halbert. Ex. Sagittariasagittifolia. 



Hemisphericus calyx. Half round, or half a sphere. 



Heptandria. The seventh Class of the Linnaean system. 



Herba. An herb; according to Linnaeus, it is thepart of the 

 vegetable which rises from the root ; terminated by the 

 fructification, comprehending the stem, leaf, fulcra, and 

 hibernacula. 



Herbacae planta. Plants which annually perish down to the 

 root. 



