Half-breed 



OF BOTANICAL TERMS. 



Hebecarpous 



coarser bairs than "pubes- 

 cent." 



HALBERD SHAPED, see Has- 

 tate. 



H ALBERT SHAPED, see Has- 

 tate. 



HALF-AnAT'ROPOUS, see Am- 



PHITROPOUS. 



HALF-BREED, applied in stock- 

 breeding to a cross between a 

 well - established breed and 

 common or " scrub " stock, 

 but seldom used in botany. 

 (Used by Burbidge in the sense 

 of Cross.) 



HALE-EQ'UITANT, said of oppo- 

 site leaves whose margins are 

 folded forward and enclose the 

 stem and one edge of the oppo- 

 site leaf, leaving one margin of 

 each leaf outside. Compare 

 Equitant. 



HALF iNFE'RlOR, said of an 

 ovary when the stamens are 

 perigynous. 



HALF STEM-CLASP'lNG, see 

 Semiampi>exicaul. 



HALF SUPE'RIOR, see Perigy- 



NOt'S. 



HALOPH'ILOIJS, salt-loving. 

 HAL'OPHYTE, a plant containing 

 a large quantity of common 

 salt in its composition, a 

 which thrives best in 

 places, as Salsola Kali. 

 HALVED, see Dimidiate. 

 HA'MATE, hooked. 

 HAMOSE', see Hamate. 

 HA'MOUS, see Hamate. 

 HAM'tJLATE, diminutive 



Hamate. 

 HAM'tJLOSE, diminutive of Ha- 



mose; bearing small hooks. 

 HAM'tJLUS, a small hook. 

 HAPLOGONID'IUM, an algal 

 gonidium in lichens resem- 

 bling Protococcus. (Rare.) 



salty 



of 



HAPLOPERlS'TOMOtJS, having a 

 peristome in mosses with but a 

 single row of teeth. 

 HAPLOSTEM'ONOtJS, having the 



stamens in one whorl. 

 HARD, said of fruits, chiefly pears, 

 which require cooking to soft- 

 en them for eating. 

 HARD"?, said of plants capable 

 of passing the winter uninjured 

 by cold. Hardiness also im- 

 plies the ability to withstand 

 any injurious climatic influ- 

 ence, but its limited use re- 

 ferring to cold is most common. 

 i HAS'TATE, like the head of 

 halberd— applied to leav 

 which have a spreading lojbgj 

 on each side of the bafiqa ! 

 Compare Sagittate. 

 HAS'TIFORM, see Hastate 

 hAs'TILE, see Hastate. 

 HATCH ET-SHAPED, see Dola 



BRIFORM. , Oj 



HAULM, the dead stems of air 



herbaceous plant. 

 HATJSTO'RiUM (pi. Hausto'rla), 

 'the special organ of certain 

 parasites by means of which 

 they obtain food from their 

 host. 



HEAD, any compact somewhat 

 rounded" body upon a stem. 

 The term is also applied to a 

 cluster of nearly sessile flow- 

 ers, as in the clovers and 

 Compositae, also to other more 

 or less compact inflorescences, 

 as the spike, corymb, and 

 panicle. See Capitulum. 



HEART, the organic centre of 

 anything, as the central por- 

 tion of a tree-trunk, or a grow- 

 ing point surrounded by leaves. 



HEART-SHAPED, see Cordate. 



HEART-WOOD, see Duramen. 



HEBECAR'POUS, having pubes- 

 cent fruit, (Obs.) 

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