GLOSSARY. 
Glumaceous : glume-like, or bearing 
glumes. 
Glumes + the scale-like bracts, &c. of 
grasses and sedges. 
Granular: cove Plants“ d jy jä 
G ospermous Plants: ora, p. 431. 
Gynandrous, 70. 
Habit: the general appearance of a plant. 
Habitat: the native situation of a plant. 
Hairs: hair-like appendages of the cuticle. 
Hairy: furnished with hairs. 
Hastate or Halberd-shaped: dilated at the 
base into two spreading lobes. 
ss eapai ovate, with a sinus at the 
Heptandrous: having: seven stamens. 
Herb, 26. 
Herbaceous, 26; of the color and texture 
of a leaf. 
owe ie a collection of dried plants. 
Hilum, 1 
Hirsute: Best with coarse hairs. 
Hispid: beset with rigid hairs. 
Hoary: grayish-white. 
Homogeneous: uniform in substance. 
Hooded: rolled inward or arched. 
Horn: an appendage like a horn. 
peor of the texture of horn. 
Hyaline: ihia and nearly ee 
LL eios 112. 
pides nenh es 1 
Imperfect (Bowers ) 66. 
Incised: cut into AE or lobes. 
Included: enclosed; opposed to Exserted. 
Incumbent: Flora, p. 24. 
Incurved: bending inward. 
Indefinite: numerous; not readily counted. 
Indefinite Inflorescence, 48. 
Indehiscent: not ope: 
Indigenous: native to a country. 
Induplicate: folded inward. 
Indusium: Flora, p. 586. 
Inferior: below, 103. 
Inflated: puffed out, as if distended with 
Inflexed: bent inward. 
Inflorescence, 47. 
Innate (anther), 72. 
Inserted on: used in the sense of growing 
- from a part. 
Insertion: EU mode of attachment. . 
Internodes, 14 
Interrupted: not continuous ; not jointed. 
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tween the 
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Jointed : separating across into pieces ; 
furnished with joints. 
Keel: a sharp longitudinal ridge on the 
back of an organ; Flora, p. 86. 
Keeled: see Carinate. 
Kidney-shaped: heart-shaped, but the- 
width greater than the length. 
Labellum: the odd petal (lip) of the Or- 
chis Family. 
Labiate: divided into an upper and lower 
lobe or lip. 
Laciniate: divided into irregular lobes. 
Lamellate: formed of thin plates. 
Lamina: the blade of a leaf, &c. 
Lanceolate: lance-shaped. 
Lanuginous: woolly. 
Lateral: placed at, or pertaining to the 
side. 
33. 
et, 36. 
Leathery: see Coriaceous. 
Legume, 88. 
Toner: like a double-convex lens. 
senden: UT 
igulate: strap-sha 
Lifula: Fira p. 545. 
Limb: the expanded part of a leaf, &c.- 
Linear : poet koe: and amis with parallel 
Epi 
gres cocci C lapel. 
Lyrate: pinnatifid, with the upper lobes 
"use A A 
Marginal: borne on, or pertaining to, the 
edge or margin. 
Medullary Rays, 30. 
Medullary Sheath, 29. 
Membranous: of the texture of mem- 
brane. 
Mericarp: Flora, p. 157. 
Midrib? the prol f the tiot 
i e ongation o e 
h the Iimb'of a leaf. d 
Monadelphous, 70. 
Monandrous: bearing one 
— e short sud like a 
Monochlamydeous: bearing only one row : 
of floral envelopes. : 
Monocotyledonous, 104. 
Moneecious, 67. 
Monopetalous : with the ibis: united 
into one piece. 
ims with the sepals united 
into one piece. ; 
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