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Head. A dense, round inflorescence of sessile or nearl}' sessile flowers. 

 Herbaceous. Leaf-like in texture and color. 

 Hirsute. Having rather coarse stif¥ hairs. 

 Hispid. With bristly stiff hairs. 

 Hydrophyte. A water plant. 



Hypogynous. Having the calyx, corolla, and androecium below the 

 gynoecium. 



Imbricated. Overlapping. 



Imperfect. iVIonosporangiate flowers; having only stamens or only 

 carpels. 



Incised. Cut into sharp lobes. 



Included. Not projecting beyond surrounding parts. 



Indehiscent. Not opening. 



Inequilateral. With unequal sides. 



Inferior. Situated or arising below other organs. 



Inflorescence. The flower cluster of a plant and its mode of arrange- 

 ment. 



Internode. The part of a stem between two successive nodes. 



Introrse. Facing inwards. 



Involucre. A whorl of bracts subtending a flower or flower cluster. 



Involute. Rolled inwardly. 



Irregular. A flower with one or more organs of a set unlike the others. 



Isobilateral. A flower or organ which can be cut into equal halves by 

 two planes, the halves of the one being unlike those of the 

 other. 



Lanceolate. Lance-shaped. 



Lateral bud. An axillary bud, any bud not tlic terminal bud of a branch. 



Latex. The milky sap of certain plants. 



Leaflet. One of the divisions of a compound leaf. 



Leaf scar. The scar or cicatrix formed where the petiole of a leaf sepa- 

 rates from the stem or twig. 



Legume. A simple, dry fruit dehiscent along hoih sutures. 



Lenticel. A small usually i;val or rounded spot on tlie bark of a twig 

 or stem, produced by a special tissue of cells under a stoma 

 and breaking through the epidermis. 



Limb. The expanded part of a petal, sepal, or sympetalous corolla. 



Linear. A long and narrow organ with the sides nearly parallel. 



Lobed. Divided to a1)out the middle or less. 



Loculicidal. .\ capsule which splits longitudinally through tlie middle 

 of the back of each cavity or component carpel. 



Medullary rays. Sirip> of cells passing radially tlirougli the wood from 

 the pith or annual rings to the bark. 



