232 THE STORY OF PLANT LIFE 
Gynandrous.—When the style and stamens are united. 
Hermaphrodite.—Having both sexes in the same flower, used in 
the same sense as bisexual by many botanists. 
Hirsute.—With stiff hairs. 
Hispid.—With long, rigid hairs, 
Homogamous.— When the stamens and pistil are mature together. 
Honey Gland.—Glands containing honey, at the base of the 
ovary as arule. 
Honey Guide.—Spots or other markings in flowers indicating 
the entrance to the flower and whereabouts of honey glands. 
Honey Pit.—A cavity in which honey collects. 
Hypogynous.—Of the flower when the receptacle is conical (with 
the ovary superior). 
Illegitimate.— When pollination takes place between similar forms 
where there are long and short forms; little or no seed setting. 
Imbricate.—Overlapping. 
Incised.—Cut. 
Incomplete.—With one or more of the organs wanting. 
Incumbent.—When the radicle is not applied to the edges, but 
the back, of the cotyledon. 
Indefinite.—Of stamens, etc., not of stated number. 
Indehiscent.—Not opening along a suture. 
Induplicate.—With the edges folded inwards in valve-like organs. 
Inferior,—Below another organ. 
Inflexed.—Curved inwards from outside. 
Inflorescence.—The flower-head and its arrangement of parts. 
Introrse.—Of anthers opening inwards, centripetal. 
Involucel.—A partial involucre. 
Involucre.—A whorl of bracts, below the flowers. 
Irregular.—Unequal, unsymmetrical. 
Labellum.—Lip, of a flower. 
Lanceolate.—Lance-shaped, narrow, tapered to a point. 
Latex.—Plant juice, frequently milky, as in the dandelion. 
Laticiferous.—Containing milky juice. 
Leaf.—Lateral appendages of the stem. _ 
Leaflets.—In compound leaves the parts. 
Legitimate.—Crossing between long and short or short and long 
forms of heterostylic flowers, resulting in fertile seed. 
