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GLOSSARY 



Epiphytic. Growing on other plants, but 

 not parasitic 



Equitanl. Astride, used of conduplicate 

 leaves which enfold each other in two 

 ranks, as in Iris. 



Erase. Irregularly margined, as if gnawed. 



Evanescent. Early disappearing. 



Evergreen. Bearing green leaves through- 

 out the year. 



Excurrenl. With a tip projecting beyond 

 the main part of the organ. 



Exfoliating. Peeling off in layers. 



Exocarp. The outer layer of the pericarp. 



Exogenous. Forming new tissue outside 

 the older. 



Exogens. Dicotyledons. 



Exserted. Prolonged past surrounding 

 organs. 



Extravaginal innovalion. Where the new 

 shoot breaks through the basal sheath 

 and produces a horizontal stolon. 



Extrorse. Facing outward. 



Falcate. Scythe-shaped. 



Farinaceous. Mealy in texture. 



Farinose. Covered with a mealy powder. 



Fascicle. A dense cluster. 



Fastigiate. Stems or branches which are 

 nearly erect and close together. 



Faveolate, Favose. Honeycombed; same as 

 alveolate. 



Fenestrate. With window-like markings. 



Fenestration. Transparent spots or open- 

 ings. 



-ferous (in composition). Bearing. 



Ferruginous. Color of iron-rust. 



Fertile. Bearing spores, or bearing seed. 



Fetid, Ill-smelling. 



Fibrillate. Fibrillose. Furnished with or 

 abounding in fine fibres. 



Fibro-vascular. Composed of woody fibres 

 and ducts. 



Filament. The stalk of a stamen; also 

 any slender thread -shaped appendage. 



Filamcntose, Filamentous. Bearing or 



formed of slender tlireads. 



Filiform. Tliread-like. 



Fimbriate. Fringed. 



Fimbrillate. Minutely fringed. 



Fistular, Fistulose. CyUndrical and hol- 

 low, as the leaves of an onion. 



Flabellate, or Flabelliform. Fan-shaped; 

 applied to leaves, etc. 



Flaccid. Without rigidity; lax and weak. 



Flagellate. Producing slender runners. 



Flagelliferous. Bearing flagella. 



Flagellum i-a). A slender runner as in 

 the strawberry plant. 



Flexuous. Zigzag; bending alternately 

 in opposite directions. 



Floccose. With loose tufts of wool-like 

 hairs. 



Floret. A small flower, usually one of a 

 dense cluster. 



Foliaceous. Leaf-like in texture or ap- 

 pearance. 



-foliate. Having leaves. 



Foliolale. With separate leaflets. 



-foliolate. Having leaflets. 



Foliose. Leafy. 



Follicle. A fruit consisting of a single 

 carpel, dehiscing by the ventral suture. 



Follicular. LUie a follicle. 



Fornicate. Arched over, as the corona of 

 some Boraginaceae, closing the throat 

 of the corolla. 



Fornix (-ces). Small arching crest in the 

 throat of the corolla. 



Foveate, Foveolate. More or less pitted. 



Free. Not adnate to other organs. 



Frond. The leaf of ferns and some other 

 cryptogams: in Lenuiaceae, the thallus- 

 like stem which functions as foliage. 



Frutescent, Fruticose. More or less shrub- 

 like. 



Fugacioxis. Soon falling off or perishins. 



Funiculus. The stalk of an oviile or seed. 



Funnel form. Funnel-shaped. Expanding 

 gradually upwards, like a funnel. 



Furfuraceous. Resembling bran; scurfy. 



Fuscous. Grayish brown. 



Fusiform. Spindle-shaped: swollen in the 

 middle and narrowing toward each end. 



Galea. A hood-like part of a perianth or 

 corolla; upper lip of a two-lipped cor- 

 olla. 



Galeate. Helmet-shaped; having a galea. 



Gamopetalous. With united petals; same 

 as monopetalous and sympetalous. 



Gamosepalous. With united sepals; same 

 as monosepalous. 



Geminate. Like twins. 



Geniculate. Bent abruptly, like a knee, 

 as many stems. 



Gibbous. Enlarged or swollen on one 

 side. 



Glabrate. Becoming glabrous with age, 

 or almost glabrous. 



Glabrous. Devoid of hairs. 



Gland. A secreting cell, or group of cells. 



Glandular. With glands, or gland-like. 



Glaucous. Covered or wliitened with a 

 bloom. 



Globose. Spherical or nearly so. 



Glochidiate. Barbed at the tip. 



Glomerate. In a compact cluster. 



Glomerule. A dense capitate cyme. 



Glumaceous. Resembling glumes. 



Glume. The scaly bracts of the spikelets 

 of grasses and sedges. 



Glutinous. Covered with a sticky exuda- 

 tion. 



Granuliferous. Bearing or covered with 

 small granules. 



Gregarious. Growing in groups or colon- 

 ies. 



Gymnospermous. Bearing naked seeds, 

 without an ovary. 



Gynaecandrous. Having staminate and 

 pistillate flowers in the same splkelet, 

 the latter above the former. 



Gynandrous. Having the stamens and 

 pistils more or less united. 



Gynobase. A prolongation or enlarge- 

 ment of the receptacle supporting the 

 ovary. 



Gynaphore. An elongation of the recep- 

 tacle bearing the pistil; a stalk of the 

 pod made up from a part of the recep- 

 tacle; compare stipe. 



Gynoecium. The whole set of pistils. 



Gynaphore. A stalk raising a pistil above 

 the insertion of the stamens. 



Habit. The general aspect of a plant, or 



its mode of growth. 

 Habitat. The situation in which a plant 



grows in a wild state. 

 Halberd-shaped. The same as hastate. 

 Hamate. Crooked, hooked. 

 Hastate. Halberd-shaped; like sagittate. 



but with the basal lobes diverging. 

 Head. A dense cluster of sessile or nearly 



sessile flowers on a very short axis or 



receptacle. 

 'Hemispheric. Shaped like half a globe. 

 Herb. A plant with no persistent woody 



stem above ground. 

 Herbaceous. Leaf-like In texture and 



color; pertaining to an herb. 



