GLOSSARY 



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Falcate. Scythe-shaped; a flat body curved, 



its edges parallel. 

 Farinaceous. Mealy in texture. 

 Farinose. Covered with a mealy powder. 

 Fascicle. A close cluster. 

 Fascicled. Growing in a bundle or tuft, as 



the leaves of pine and larch, and the 



roots of peony and dahlia. 

 Fastigiate (branches). Close, parallel. 

 Faveolate, Favose. Honeycombed; same as 



alveolate. 



Fertile. Fruit-bearing, or capable of pro- 

 ducing fruit; also applied to anthers 



when they produce good pollen. 

 Fiddle-shaped. Obovate with a deep re- 

 cess on each side. 

 Filament. The stalk of a stamen; also any 



slender thread-shaped appendage. 

 Filamentose, Filamentous. Bearing or 



formed of slender threads. 

 Filiform. Thread-shaped; long, slender, 



and cylindrical. 

 Fimbriate. Fringed; furnished with 



fringes. 

 Fistular, Fistulose. Cylindrical and hollow, 



as the leaves of onion. 

 Flabelliform, Flabellate. Fan-shaped; broad, 



rounded at the summit, and narrowed 



at the base. 

 Fleshy. Composed of firm pulp or flesh; 



succulent. 



Flexuose, Flexuous. Bending gently in op- 

 posite directions, in a zigzag way. 

 Floccose. Composed of or bearing tufts of 



woolly or long and soft hairs. 

 Floret. A small flower, usually one of a 



dense cluster. 

 Foliaceous. Belonging to, or of the texture 



or nature of a leaf. 

 Foliose. Leafy. 

 Follicle. A simple pod, opening down the 



inner suture. 

 Foveate. Deeply pitted. 

 Foveolate. Diminutive of foveale. 

 Free. Not united with any other parts. 

 Fringed. The margin beset with slender 



appendages, bristles, etc. 

 Frond. The leaf of ferns and some other 



cryptogams; in Lemnaceae, the thallus- 



like stem which functions as foliage. 

 Fruit. The seed-bearing structure of a 



plant. 



Fugacious. Soon falling off or perishing. 

 Fulvous. Tawny; dull yellow with gray. 

 Funiculus. The stalk of a seed or ovule. 

 Funnelform, Funnel-shaped. Expanding 



gradually upwards, like a funnel. 

 Furcate. Forked. 

 Fuscous. Deep gray-brown. 

 Fusiform. Spindle-shaped. 



Galea. A hooded or helmet-shaped portion 

 of a perianth, as the upper sepal of 



Aconitum, and the upper lip of some 



bilabiate corollas. 

 Gamopetalous, With united petals; same 



as monopetalous and sympetalous. 

 Gamosepalous. With united sepals; same 



as monosepalous. 

 Geminate. Twin, in pairs, as the flowers of 



Linnaea. 

 Gemma. A bud. 

 Geniculate. Bent abruptly, like a knee, 



as many stems. 

 Gibbous. More swollen at one place or on 



one side than the other. 

 Glabrate. Becoming glabrous with age, or 



almost glabrous. 

 Glabrous. Smooth, having no hairs, bristles, 



or other pubescence. 

 Gland. A secreting surface or structure; 



any protuberance or appendage having 



the appearance of such an organ. 

 Glaucous. Covered with a fine white 



powder that rubs off (bloom), like that 



on a fresh plum or a cabbage leaf. 

 Globose. Spherical in form, or nearly 



so. 



Globular. Nearly globose. 

 Glochidiate (hairs or bristles). Barbed; 



tipped with barbs, or with a double hooked 



point. 

 Glomerate. Closely aggregated into a dense 



cluster. 



Glomerule. A dense head-like cluster. 

 Glume. The husks or floral coverings of 



grasses, or particularly the outer husks 



or bracts of each spikelet. 

 Gymnospermous . Naked-seeded. 

 Gymnosperms. The great group of seed- 

 plants with ovules (and seeds) not in- 

 closed (naked). 

 Gynandrous, With stamens borne on 



(united with) the pistils. 

 Gynobase. An enlargement or prolonga- 

 tion of the receptacle bearing the 



ovary. 



Gynoecium. The whole set of pistils. 

 Gynophore. A stalk raising a pistil above the 



insertion of the stamens. 



Habit. The general aspect of a plant, or 



its mode of growth. 

 Habitat. The situation in which a plant 



grows in a wild state. 

 Hastate. Like an arrowhead, but with the 



basal lobes pointing outward nearly at 



right angles. 

 Heart-shaped. With the conventional shape 



of a heart. 

 Helmet. See galea. 

 Hemi-, in compounds, means half. 

 Herb. A plant with no persistent woody 



stem above ground. 

 Herbaceous. With the texture of common 



herbage; not woody. 



