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the pistil rests; sometimes applied 
to a shortened carpophore. 
Gynoecium. A term applied to the 
pistil or aggregate pistils of a flower. 
Gynophore. The stalk or support of 
the ovary. 
Gyrate. Curved into a circle or spiral; 
circinate. 
Habit. The general form and appea- 
rance of a plant. 
Habitat. The locality or geographical 
range of a plant. 
Hairs. Slender cellular outgrowths 
from the epidermis of plants, of 
various forms and kinds. 
Hairy. Covered with hairs, more or 
less loosely. 
Halbert-shaped. See Hastate. 
Hamate. Curved at the end into a 
hook. 
Hamulate. Diminutive of the last. 
Hastate. Triangular or arrow-shaped 
with the basal angles or lobes direc- 
ted outward. 
Head. A cluster of flowers, which 
are sessile or nearly so upon a very 
short axis or receptacle; a shortened 
spike. 
Heart-shaped. Cordate; ovate with 
a sinus between the rounded basal 
lobes. 
Herb. A plant that has no persistent 
wody growth above the base. 
Herbaceous. 
an herb; not woody or shrubby. 
Herbarium. A systematically arranged 
collection of dried plants. 
Heterogamous. Bearing two hinds of 
flowers. 
Heterogeneous. 
in kind. 
Heteromallous. Spreading in all direc- 
tions. 
Heteromorphous. 
Heterophyllous. Having leaves of diffe- 
rent forms. 
Heterosporous. Bearing spores of more 
than one kind. 
Hilum. The sear or place of attach- 
ment of the seed. 
Hippocrepiform. Waving the shape 
of a horseshoe. 
Hirsute. Pubescent with rather coarse 
or stiff hairs. 
Dissimilar; differing 
Having the character of | 
Of different forms. | 
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Hispid. Beset with rigid or bristly 
hairs. 
Hispidulous. Minutely hispid. 
Hoary. Grayish-withe with a fine 
close pubescence. 
Homogamous. Having only one kind 
of flowers. 
Homogeneous. Uniform in ebaracter, 
nature or kind. 
Homomallous. Secund; turned to one 
side, 
Hood, Hooded. See Cucullate. 
Hyaline. ‘Transparent; translucent. 
Hybrid. A cross between two species, 
produced by the fertilization of the 
flower of one species by the pollen 
of another. 
Hypocrateriform, or Hypocrateri- 
morphous. The same as salverform. 
Hypogaeous. Growing or remaining 
under ground. 
Hypogynous. ‘Growing upon the re- 
ceptacle of the flower at the base 
of the pistil, and free from the 
perianth. 
Imbricate. Overlapping, as the scales 
of the several series of an involucre; 
in aestivation, applied to cases where 
at least one part of the calyx (or 
corolla) is wholly external and one 
wholly internal, as distinct from 
convolute, where none are either 
wholly external or internal, and 
from valvate, where none overlap. 
Immarginate. Not margined or 
bordered. 
Immersed. Growing wholly under 
water; in mosses, used of a cap- 
sule inclosed within its involucral 
leaves. 
Imparipinnate. Pinnate with an odd 
terminal leaflet. 
TInaequilateral. With unequal sides. 
Incised.  Irregularly, sharply’ and 
deeply cut. 
Included. Inclosed by the surrounding 
organs; not exserted. 
Incomplete. Not perfect; 
some of its parts. 
Incubous. Imbrieate upward, having 
the tip of one leaf resting upon 
the base of the one above it. 
Incumbent. Resting upon; of cotyle- 
dons, lying with one side toward 
wanting 
