GLOSSARY OF BOTANICAL TERMS. 
Floret, the separate little flower of 
an aggregate flower 
Foliaceous, leafy 
Frond, when the stem, root, and 
leaf are all in one 
Fruit-stalk, a stalk bearing flowers 
but not leaves 
Fruticose, shrub-like 
Fuliginous, sooty 
Fureated, forked 
Fusiform, spindle-shaped 
G 
Geniculated, knee-jointed 
Germen, seed-bud, the rudiment of 
fruit yet in embryo 
Gibbous, bulging 
Gills, the thin plates on the under 
side of a mushroom 
Glands, secretory vessels 
Glandular, formed of glands 
Glaucous, grey, blueish-green 
Glomerate, flowers growing close 
together in a globular form 
Glume, husk 
Granulated, headed 
H 
Hastate, halbert-shaped 
Hastate-sinuated, jagged halbert- 
shaped 
Herbaceous, succulent and tender, 
in opposition to woody 
Hermaphrodite flowers, containing 
both stamens and pistils 
Hirsute, roughed with strong hairs 
Hispid, bristly 
Husk, dry, semitransparent mem- 
branes, forming the calyx and 
blossoms of grasses 
Hymenium, that part of a fungus 
- which contains the reproductive 
_ organs 
fo dg 
Inbricated, tiled 
Imperfect flowers, such as want | 
either anther or pistil, or both 
Incise, serrated, gashed 
Tnerassated, thickened upwards 
Incumbent, leaning or resting 
against 
Incurved, bowing inwards 
og hollowed or deeply scol- 
Inflected, bent inwards 
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Infundibuliform, funnel-shaped 
Internode, the space between the 
joints 
Intrafoliaceous, within the leaves 
Involucrum, the calyx of an umbel 
Involucret, a aotsal ivobusestds 
Involute, rolled inwards 
Interrupted, divided by intervals of 
smaller fiowers 
K 
Keeled, bent like the keel of a ship 
or boat 
L 
Labiated, having lips 
Laciniated, jagged 
Lactescent, milky 
Lamelle, the gills of a fungus 
Laminated, the flat surface of leaves 
lying close upon each other 
Lanceolate, spear-shaped 
Lanceolate-ovate, spear —, 
Leaflet, one of the single leaves of a 
compound leaf 
Legumen, pod 
Lenticular, spherically convex on 
both sides 
Lid, a cover to the capsules of 
mosses 
Lignose, woody 
Limb, the upper flat, broad part of 
the petal is called the limb 
Linear, strap-shaped 
Linear-lanceolate, 
shaped 
Lineated, streaked see 
Lip, the upper or under division of 
a gaping blossom 
strap spear- 
Lobed, divided nearly half-way down 
into lobes” z 
Lunated, crescent-shaped 
Male flowers, containing stamens 
but no pistils 
Marginate, bordered 
-Mid-rib, the principal nerve in the — 
rib | fE 
Mitriform, mitre-formed 
Moniliform, necklace-shaped, 
beads strung together aS 
Monopetalous, one-peta 
Monophyllous, one-l 
like 
Monospermous, ded his ae 
Mucronated,sharppointed at theend — = 
