gribbous 



glandnlaoeouB 



in one place than another, a pouch- 

 like enlarg' ment of the base of an 

 organ, as of a calyx ; Gibboa'ity, 

 Gibbos'itns, a swelling at the base 

 of an organ ; gibbo'sus (Lat.) = 



GIBBEROSUS. 



gigan'tic, gigan'teus (Lat. , pertaining 

 to giants), of unusual height ; Gigan- 

 tism, unusual size ; opposed to 

 Nanism. 



Oil'iare, ( + -are) a community of Gilia, 

 (Clements). 



Gills, the plates or lamellae of an 

 Agaric which bear the spores. 



gil'vns (Lat.), pale yellow, a term 

 of confused application, sometimes 

 reddish or even greyish. 



Ginger-beer "plant," an association 

 of organisms which ferment a sweet- 

 ened liquid into Ginger-Beer. 



gin'glymoid {yiyy^vfihs, a hinge ; eUos, 

 resemblance), like a hinge (Heinig). 



ginkgoa'ceous, resembling the Maiden- 

 hair tree, Oingko hiloha ; gink- 

 goalean, Wieland's term for the 

 same. 



Gir'der sclerencli'yma, strengthening 

 tissue in section recalling a T or H 

 girder ; -^ shaped, an organ so 

 shaped. 



Gir'dle, (1) the hoop or cingulum of 

 Diatoms, that portion of the frus- 

 tule which unites the valves ; (2) 

 also applied to a ring-like branch 

 of the leaf-trace of Cycas ; — band, 

 the hoop, girdle or cingulum of a 

 Diatom-frustule ; ~ Canals', narrow 

 intercellular air spaces round the 

 palisade cells parallel to the leaf 

 surface (Warming) ; -^ Strnc'ture 

 vascular bundles surrounded by 

 radially elongated photosynthetic 

 cells (Haberlandt) ; ~ -view, the 

 front or back view of a Diatom, 

 in distinction to a lateral view ; 

 Gird'ling, in cultivation, ringing. 



githagin'eus (Lindley) ; githagino'sus 

 (Hayne), defined as greenish red, 

 meaning red or purple streaks on 

 a green ground, as the calyx of 

 Githago. 



gla'ber (Lat., without hair), ria'brate, 

 glahra'tus, destitute of puoescence ; 



by Bentham extended to mean also 

 destitute of any roughness ; gla- 

 bres'cent, glabrea'cens, becoming 

 glabrous, or slightly so ; Gla'brism, 

 the smoothness of normally hairy 

 parts ; glabriua'culus (Lat. j, some- 

 what glabrous ; gla'brons, smooth, 

 without pubescence. 



gla'cial {glacies, ice), employed by 

 C. MacMillan for " distinctively 

 northern plants." 



gl&'dia.te,gladia''us {gladiuf^, a sword), 

 (1) tiat, straight, or slightly curved, 

 with acute ap x and approximately 

 parallel edges, ensiforni . (2)aiicipital. 



Gland {glans, glatidis, an acorn) ; (1) 

 an acorn, or acorn-like fruit ; {y) a 

 definite secreting structure on the 

 surface, embedded, or ending a hair ; 

 any protuberance of the like nature 

 which may not secrete, as the warty 

 swellings at the base of the leaf in 

 the cherry and peach ; (3) in Orchids, 

 see Glandula ; '- of the Torus, 

 see Lepal (Crozier) ; allu'ring or 

 attract'ive -*', in Nepenthes aecretrng 

 nectar to attract insects ; chalk -^ , 

 those which exude salt solutions and 

 give a whitish deposit on drying, as- 

 in some species of Siixifrctge ; dermal 

 z** , external secreting cells or groups 

 of such ; diges'tiye '-, in the pitcher 

 of Nepenthes giving forth a peptic 

 ferment ; epider'mal '^ , those on 

 the external surface ; ezter'nal '-' , 

 glands not immersed in the tissues ; 

 intra-mn'ral '~, tubular curved or 

 sinuate secreting elements in PsoraUa 

 (Haberlandt) : mar'ginal ~ , glands 

 found inside the upper part of the 

 pitchers of carnivoious plants ; salt 

 ^ , which excrete solutions jof hygro- 

 scopic salts, -are dry in day time and 

 deli(|[uesce at night; glandiferons 

 {fero. I bear), bearing or producing 

 glands ; gland'iform {forma, shape), 

 shaped like a gland ; Gland'ula, 

 Gland'ale, a viscid gland in Orchids 

 and Asclepiads, which holds the 

 pollen-masses in their place; the 

 retinaculum; glandula'oeous, -ceus 

 (+ ACEOTJs), the colour of a ripe 

 acorn ; raw sienna yellow ; glan'du- 



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