GLOSSARY. 
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Galea ; a helmet, the arched upper 
lip of some forms of 2-labiate cor¬ 
olla. 
G&leate ; with a galea. 
Gamop6talous, &c., 134. 
Geminate ; in pairs. 
Genera, genus, 235. 
Generic character, &c., 236. 
Germ; the growing point of a bud. 
Germen, 149. 
Germination, 222. 
Glabrous, 58. 
Glands, of leaves, &c., 58. 
Glands, of the flower, are any pro¬ 
cesses of the disk, or honey-bear¬ 
ing .appendages. 
Glandular; gland-bearing. 
Glaucous j covered with a whitish 
fine powder, or bloom , that rubs off. 
Glochidiate ; beset with hook-pointed 
bristles. 
Glomerate ; densely clustered. 
Glomerule, 122. 
Glumaceous; glume-bearing. 
Glume, p. 567. 
Grain, 203. 
Gymnosp6rmous, 150. 
Gynae cium, 148. 
Gynandrous, 155. 
Gjrnobase; an elevation of the torus 
bearing the pistils in Rue, &c. 
G^nophore ; a special stalk of the 
ovary. 
Gynous, 151. 
Habit; the general appearance of a 
plant. 
Habitat; the situation where a plant 
naturally grows. 
Hairs, 58. 
Halbert-shaped, 67. 
Hastate, 67. 
Head, 110. 
Heart-shaped, 67. 
Heart-wood, 50. 
Helmet; see Galea. 
Heptandrous, 146. 
Herbaceous, 28. 
Herbs, 28. 
Heterbtropous ; same as Amphitro- 
pous. 
Hexamerous, 157. 
Hexandrous, 146. 
Hilum, 177, 212. 
Hirsute; hairy with long and slender 
and tolerably distinct hairs. 
Hispid; bristly ; covered with long 
and stiff hairs. 
Hombgamous; all the flowers of a 
head alike. 
Hooded; arched or rolled inwards, 
like a cowl. 
Hybrid, 234. 
Hypocrateriform, 139. 
Hypogae'ous ; growing under ground. 
Hypdgynous, 154. 
Imbricated, or Imbricative, 136. Said 
generally of parts which overlie 
each other so as to cover the 
edges, or break joints. 
Incised, 64. 
Incumbent; lying upon; said of an 
embryo with the radicle folded 
down upon the back of one of the 
cotyledons, p. 31. 
Indefinite, 146. 
Indehiscent, 200. 
Individuals, 233. 
Induplicate ; folded in, 136. 
Indusium, p. 620. 
Inferior, 159. 
Inflorescence, 99. 
Infundibuliform, 139. 
Innate, 144. 
Innovations; new shoots from the 
apex. 
Insertion, 83. 
Internodes, 13. 
Introrse ; turned inwards, 144. 
Invdlucel, 117. 
Involuc£llate ; with an involucel. 
Involucrate ; furnished with an 
I'nvolucre, 109. 
Involute; rolled inwards, 93. 
Irregular, 138. 
Isomerous; equal in the number of 
parts. 
Jointed; separating across by an ar¬ 
ticulation. 
Keel, 159. 
Keeled ; furnished with a projecting 
ridge along the under side, like 
the keel of a boat. 
Key, 206. 
Kidney-shaped, 67. 
Labellum; the lip in Orchideae, p. 
464. 
Libiate, 139. 
Laciniate ; slashed; deeply and irreg¬ 
ularly cut. 
Lamella; a thin plate. 
Lamina, 59, 137. 
Lanate. Lanuginous; woolly; clothed 
with long, curled and matted or in¬ 
terwoven hairs. 
Lanceolate; lance-shaped, 66. 
