1 84 Glossary. 



Free-central — When the placenta occupies the centre of the ovary and is not 

 connected with the walls of the ovary. 



Fugacious — Falling off early. 

 Fusiform — Spindle-shaped. 

 Gamopetalous — With united petals. 

 Gamosepalous— With united sepals. 

 Geniculate — Bent like a knee. 

 Glabrous — Smooth, without hairs. 



Glands — Secreting organs, as the stings of the nettle the hairs (furnishing a 

 sticky secretion) seen on the leaves of the Sundew. 



Glaucous — Covered with a pale-green bloom. 



Globose — Rounded. 



Glumaceous — Formed of glumes. 



Glume — A chaffy or membranous bract, see Graminese, p. 160. 



Hastate— Spear- or halbert-shaped. 



Hispid — Covered with long harsh hairs. 



Hypogynous — Inserted below the ovary 



Imbricated — Overlapping, like the tiles on a roof. 



Incumbent — Applied to the cotyledons when so folded that their flat sides 

 are next the radicle. 



Indefinite — Varying in number, more than 20. 



Indehiscent — Not splitting open when ripe. 



Indusium — the membranous cover over the spore cases of ferns. 



Involucel — The bracts at the base of the partial umbels in Umbelliferse, or 

 surrounding the flowers of the flower-head in Dipsacece. 



Involucre — The bracts surrounding the general umbel in Umbelliferse, or 

 the flower-head in Compositse. 



Irregular — Having some of the sepals or petals larger than the rest 01 

 differently shaped. 



Laciniate — Irregularly cut into fringe-like segments. 



Lateral — From the side of the axis, not terminal. 



Legume — A many-seeded pod of one carpel, as in the pea, dehiscing usually 

 by both sutures. 



Lenticular — Like a double convex lens, 



Ligulate — Strap-shaped, like the corolla in the Dandelion. 



Limb — The broad part of a sepal or petal, or the blade of a leaf. 



Loculicidal — Dehiscence through the back of the carpels. 



Lyrate — A pinnatifid leaf with the terminal lobe the largest, as in Barbarea 



Mesocaro — The middle covering of the fruit. 



