372 GLOSSARY 
Homogeneous. Without firmer plates or grit, as here used 
for pith: composed entirely of living cells, as applied by 
Gris. 
Homologous. Of comparable morphological origin.—See mor- 
phology. 
Honeycombed. Finely spongy (pith of wintergreen). 
Horrid. Used in the classical sense. 
Hypotrophic. More nourished and developed on the lower 
side (horizontal branches of yew). 
Imbricated. Overlapping like shingles. 
Impressed-veiny or venulose. With sunken veins or veinlets. 
Incipient. Beginning or developing. 
Indefinite or indistinct. Not readily made out: usually be- 
cause very small or hairy (bud-scales), or because over- 
grown by a corky layer (bundle-traces). 
Indehiscent. Not opening, as applied to fruits. 
Inequilateral. With unequal sides: the same as oblique when 
applied to leaves or leaflets. 
Inferior. Applied to a flower or fruit in which the pistil 
appears to bear the calyx on its side (witch hazel) or 
top (apple). 
Inflorescence. A flower cluster. 
Inflorescence-scar. The scar from which a flower-cluster has 
fallen. 
Infra-. Below.—lInfra-axillary, below the axil or leaf (goose- 
berry prickle); infraspinal, below the spine (bougainvil- 
lea bud). 
Internode. The part of a stem between two nodes. 
Intricate. Much branched with entangled branches. 
Involucrate. With an involucre or cluster of bracts. 
Involucre. A cluster of modified leaves about a flower-cluster. 
Isodiametric. As broad as high. 
Junctures. The same as winter nodes. The points at which 
one season’s growth is succeeded by the next: they com- 
prise the interrameal region of Gris. 
