GLOSSARY 219 



Fertile. Productive. 



Fertilization. Intermingling of the contents of a male and female cell. 



Fibrillose. Bearing fine fibers. 



Filament. The slender portion of the stamen supporting the anther. 



Filiform. Thread-shaped. 



Fimbriate. Fringed. 



Fimbrillate. Diminutive of fimbriate. 



Flaccid. Lacking rigidity. 



Flexuous. Zigzag. 



Floccose. Bearing tufts of wool-like hairs. 



Foliaceous. Leaf-like. 



-foliate. In composition referring to leaves. 



-foliolate. In composition referring to leaflets. 



Follicle. A one-celled fruit dehiscing by one suture. 



Free. Not attached to other organs. 



Frond. The leaf of ferns. 



Frutescent. Shrub-like. 



Fugacious. Early falling away. 



Fugitive. Plants not native and apparently not permanently established. 



Funicle. The stalk of an ovule or seed. 



Fuscous. Grayish-brown. 



Fusiform. Spindle-shaped. 



Galea. A helmet-shaped portion of a floral envelope. 

 Galeate. Provided with a galea. 



Gamopetalous. Having the petals more or less united. 

 Geniculate. Bent abruptly. 

 Gibbous. With a swelling on one side. 

 Glabrate. Nearly without hairs. 

 Glabrous. Entirely without hairs. 

 Gland. A secreting organism. 

 Glandular. Bearing glands. 

 Glaucous. Covered with a bluish-white bloom. 

 Globose. Round. 

 Glomerate. Compactly clustered. 

 Glumaceous. Glume-like. 



Glume. The scaly bractlets of the inflorescence in sedges and grasses. 

 Granular. Resembling or composed of grains. 

 Granulose. Granular. 

 Gregarious. Growing in groups. 

 Gymnospermous. Plants with naked seeds. 

 Gynandrous. Having the pistil supporting the stamens. 

 Gynobase. A prolongation or enlargement of the receptacle bearing the 

 ovary. 



Habit. The general appearance or aspect of a plant. 



Habitat. Place of growth of a plant. 



Hastate. Arrow-shaped, but with basal lobes spreading at right angles. 



Head. A dense usually spherical cluster of sessile (or nearly so) flowers. 



Herbaceous, Herb-like ; leaf-like in color or texture. 



Heterogamous. Bearing two kinds of flowers. 



