Gosling 



Grass-land 



Gos'ling, an old term for catkin, is 

 resembling a soft- feathered young 

 goose. 



gos'sypine, qossypi'nus, cottony, floc- 

 cuknt, like the hairs on the seeds of 

 Gossypiutn. 



Gourd, a fleshy, one-celled, many- 

 seeded fruit, with parietal placentas, 

 as a melon. 



grac'ilis (Lat.), slender ; Crozier has 

 the needless word "gracile." 



Graft, a union of diff"erent individuals 

 by ai)position, the rooted plant 

 being termed the stock, the portion 

 inserted the scion ; ~ Hy'brid, effect 

 produced by one or the other of 

 tiie united individuals on its grafted 

 fellow ; Graft'age, L. H. Bailey's 

 term for multiplication by gi-afting 

 or the state of being thus increased. 



Grain, a general term for cereals, those 

 grasses cultivated for food ; the 

 caryopsis or the fruit of the same ; 

 grained, having grain-like tubercles 

 or processes, as in the flowers of 

 Rumcx (Crozier). 



gramina'ceous, gramin'eal [gramen, 

 grass), s3'nonyms of gramin'eous, 

 -eus. g^a'minous, ( 1 ) relating to grass 

 or grain-bearing plants ; (2) grass- 

 coloured ; g^amiuic^olous {colo, I 

 inhabit), growing on grasses, as some 

 Fungi ; graminifo'lious, {folium, a 

 leaf), liaving grass-like leaves ; 

 Graminorogy {\6yos, discourse) = 

 Agrostology (Crozier). 



gram'micus (Lat.), [ypafifiiKhs, lined), 

 lettered, marked as though in- 

 scribed ; grammopodlus + (iroCy, 

 iroBhs, a foot or stem), having a 

 striped stalk. 



Gra'na, pi. of Gra'num (Lat.), a seed, 

 (1) any small bodies ; (2) the 

 coloured drops in chloroplasts 

 (Strasburger) ; --' tetras'ticha, 

 " the spores of certain Fungals " 

 (Lindley), 



granati'nus (Lat.), pale scarlet, the 

 colour of the flower of Funica 

 Granatum, Linn , the pomegranate. 



grandifo'liate {grandis, large ; fulhcvi, 

 leaf), applied to plants in which the 

 stem is subordinate, the internodes 



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are short, and the leaves the domin- 

 ant organs, e. g. Palms, Water-lilies 

 (W.,rsdell). 



Grand'mother Ax'is, the primary axis 

 of a series of three (Pottt-r) ; ~ Cell, 

 the primary cell of a third genera- 

 tion. 



Granif'erns {granifer, grain-bearing), 

 a synonym of Monocotyledon (J. S. 

 Henslow). 



gra'nifonn {granum, a gi'ain ; forma, 

 shape), having the shape of grains 

 of corn. 



granit'icus (Mod. Lat.), applied to 

 plants growing on granite rocks, as 

 certain Lichens. 



Gran'ula, Gran'ule, Gran'ulum, pi. 

 Gran'ula {granum, a grain), (1) any 

 small particles, as pollen, chloro- 

 plasts, etc. ; (2) the Naviculae ot 

 ^chizovema (fide Lindley) ; (3) spo- 

 rangia in Fungi (Lindley) ; (4) by 

 Frommann used for the nucleolua- 

 like structure in the nucleus of the 

 terminal cells of the glandular hairs 

 of Pelargovium zonale, Ait. ; (5) a 

 minute particle, the assemblage of 

 such being held to constitute proto- 

 plasm (Oltmanns) ; Gran'ula gon'- 

 ima, the gonidia in Lichens ; gran'- 

 ular, granula'ris, (1) composed of 

 grains ; (2) divided into little knots 

 or tubercles, aa- the roots of Saxi- 

 fi aga granulala, Linn. ; gran'ulate, 

 graniila'tiis, means the same thing ; 

 granalif'erouB(/'ero, I bear), granule 

 bearing ; gran'ulose, granulo'sus, 

 composed of grains ; Gran'alose, 

 used as a substantive by Naegeli 

 for true starch. 



Grape-sugar, a sugar found abundantly 

 in the grape, dextrose. 



Grascila'tio (Mod. Lat.), used by 

 Desvaux for Etiolation. 



Grass-green, clear lively green ; iu 

 Latin, })rasinns, gramineus. 



Grass-heath, Tussock -formation ; pe- 

 culiar to the southern hemisphere ; 

 ~ Moor, intermediate between IScirptis 

 moors and silicious grass-land, mainly 

 of grass, rushes, and sedges ; Grass- 

 land, dominance of grasses, as above 

 the forest belt in alpine regions. 



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