Gleba 



A DICTIONARY 



Granula-goniniia 



GLE'BA (pi. Gle'bae), chambered 

 sporogenous tissue within a 

 sporophore, as in puff-balls. 



GLO'BATE, globular. 



GLOBOIDS, grauules of calcium- 

 magnesium phosphate found in 

 grains of aleurone. 



GLO'BOSE, see Globular. 



GLOBULAR, spherical or nearly 

 so; globose. 



GLOB'ULE, the antheridium or 

 male organ of Characeae. 



GLOUHIdIATE, barbed like an 

 arrow or fish-hook. 



GLO'CHIS, a barbed hair or 

 bristle. 



GLdM'ERATE, collected into a 

 close round head. 



GLtiM'ERULE, a capitate cyme. 



GLU'MA, see Glume. 



GLUMA'CEOUS, bearing or re- 

 sembling glumes. 



GLUME, one of the outer floral 

 envelopes in grasses. The 

 term as now used includes the 

 bracts which subtend a spike- 

 let (empty glumes) and the 

 lower of the two bracts sub- 

 tending the individual flower 

 (flowering glume). 



GLUMfiL'LA, an obsolete term 

 which has been applied both 

 to the palet and lodicule in 

 grasses. 



GLUMflL'LULA, see Lodicule. 



GNAUR, a knot. (Obs.) 



GNOMdN'ICAL, bent at right 

 angles. (Obs.) See Genicu- 

 late. 



G6BLET-SHAPED, see Crateri- 



FORM. 



GONJdIOPHORE, a stalk bearing 

 a gonidium. 



GONlD'IUM (pi. Gonid'ia), a gen- 

 eral term for nearly all asexual 

 reproductive bodies in crypto- 

 gams. Also applied to the 



algal host of lichens. Com- 

 pare Spore and Carpospore. 



GONIMlA (sing. Gonim'ium), a 

 term of little importance origi- 

 nated by Ny lander and used 

 by Tuckerman and others for 

 pale bluish green gouidia in 

 lichens. 



GONlM'IC LAYER, the gonidial 

 layer in certain lichens. " Go- 

 nidial layer" is preferable. 



GON'IMOUS, gonidial as applied 

 to the algal host of lichens; 

 gouimic. (Rare.) 



G6N0PH0RE, a stalk elevating 

 the stamens and pistils only. 



GONdPH'ORUM, see Gonophore. 



GONOPLAsm, in Peronosporese, 

 the portion of the protoplasm 

 of the antheridium which 

 passes through the fertilizing 

 tube and coalesces with the 

 o5sphere. (De Bary.) 



GORGE, see Throat. 



GOS'SYPlNE, cottony. 



GRAC'LLE, slender. 



GRAFT - HYBRID, a plant, or 

 portion of a plant, which is 

 supposed to have been essen- 

 tially modified through the 

 influence of a graft. 



GRAIN, the seed or fruit of 

 Gramineae; any small seed. 



GRAINED, having grain - like 

 tubercles or processes, as those 

 on the flowers of dock (Rumex). 



GRAMfNA'gEOUS, pertaining to 

 grasses; gramineous. 



GRAmIN'EAL, see Gramina- 

 ceous. 



GRAmJn'EOUS, see Gramina- 

 ceous. 



GRAMiNdL'OGY, see Agrostol- 

 ogy. 



GRAn'ULA - GONlM'IA, an old 

 term for the gonidia of lichens. 



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