GLOSSARY 371 
Glabrate. Nearly glabrous. 
Glabrescent. Becoming glabrous. 
Glabrous. Not hairy; without trichomes. 
Glands. Secreting organs (resin-glands of sweet bay,—nec- 
tar-glands of cherry laurel, oil-glands of orange). Leaf- 
teeth and stipules often end in minute glands. 
Glandular-bristly. With stiff. gland-tipped hairs. 
Glandular-ciliate. Fringed with small glands. 
Glandular-pubescent. With gland-tipped hairs. 
Glaucous. With white or bluish bloom (box elder twig). 
Globose. Shaped like a globe; spherical. 
Granular. Minutely roughened. 
Gritty. Containing hard particles (pith of aucuba). 
Gum. A rather fluid resin, as loosely used. 
Gummy. Sticky, as applied to sap. 
Gymnosperms. Plants that have naked seeds, not enclosed 
in a pistil. With angiosperms, they constitute the flower- 
ing plants or seed-plants. 
Habit. General appearance or mode of growth. 
Hairs. Superficial outgrowths; trichomes: sometimes flat and 
scale-like (rhododendron), sometimes of rays like the 
spokes of a wheel, when they are spoken of as stellate 
(deutzia), sometimes round plates attached in the middle, 
when they are spoken of as peltate (oleaster). 
Hairy. Pubescent: often used when the hairs are rather 
long. 
Half-shrub. A suffruticose or soft-wooded plant. 
Hardy. Used in the horticultural sense, enduring winter-cold. 
Harsh. Rough to the touch, as applied to pubescence. 
Head. A round or flat cluster of sessile flowers. 
Heath-like. Fine-stemmed and low, rather simple, with per- 
sistent leaves. 
Herbaceous. Not woody; in contrast with lignified. 
Hispid. With stiff bristly hairs. 
