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tapering both ways. 



Galea; a helmet; the arched upper li 

 of a ringent corolla. 



Galeate; helmeted; having a galea. 



Gamopetalous ; having all the petals mon 

 or less completely united by their mar 

 gins ; forming what has been (rather in 

 correctly) called a monopetalous corolla 



Gamosepalous ; having the sepals all more 

 or less united by their margins. 



Geminate ; in pairs ; twin. 



Generic; pertaining or relating to a genus 



GenicuUtte; forming an angle at the joints 

 like a bent knee. 



Genus (plural, Genera); a group of species 

 which agree in what is called the gene 

 ric character, i. e. in the structure o: 

 the flower and fruit (species sometimes 

 solitary). 



Germ; the growing point of a bud. 



Germen; the old name for the ovary. 



Germination ; the sprouting or incipien 

 growth of a seed. 



Gibbous ; hunched, or swelled out, on om 

 or both sides. 



Gills; the fruit-bearing membranes of 

 theAgarics, or mushrooms. See Hymen 

 ium. 



Glabrous; very smooth; without any 

 roughness or pubescence. 



Gland; a small roundish organ, or ap 

 pendage, which often secretes a fluid. 



Glandular; gland-bearing; or gland-like 



Glandular-hispid, or glandular-pubescent, 

 hairy, or pubescent, and the hairs tipi 

 with glands. 



Glaucescent ; inclining to glaucous, or be 

 coming glaucous. 



Glaucous; of a silvery hue; pale-bluish, 

 or greenish-white; or covered with a 

 greenish-white mealiness, called bloom. 



Globose, or globular; round on all sides. 



Glomerate; densely clustered in small 

 heaps, or irregular heads. 



Glomerules; small dense roundish clusters 



Glumaceous ; chaffy ; or chaff-like. 



Glumes ; the outer chaff (bracts, or stun- 

 ted modified leaf-sheaths (embracing 

 the spikelets of the Grasses.) See Palea. 



Glumose ; having glumes (sometimes ex- 

 pressive of conspicuous glumes). 



Glutinous; viscid; covered with an ad- 

 hesive fluid. 



Gonidia; the cells of the green layer, 

 Lichens. 



Ganimous layer; the green layer of Lichens. 



Grain; the fruit of the true Grasses, 

 sometimes called a Caryopsis. 



Gramineous; grass- like; 

 grasses. 



Graniferous; bearing grain, or grain-like 

 substances. 



Granular ; formed of 

 ing of small particles. 



Gymnocarpi; naked fruit; Lichens in 

 which the apothecia are open. 



Gymnospermous ; having the seeds naked, 

 i. e. not inclosed in a pericarp. 



Gynandraus; having the stamens grow- 



resembling the Hymenium 



ing on, or adhering to, the pistil. 



Gynoecium ; a term designating the Pis- 

 tillate portion of a flower ; or the seed- 

 bearing organs, collectively. 



Gynostegium; the pistil cover, or tube 

 formed by the connate filaments, of the 

 Asclepiadeae. 



Habit of plants ; their general external 

 appearance and mode of growth, by 

 which they are usually recognized at 

 sight. 



Habitat, or habitatio ; the place, or situa- 

 tion, in which a plant naturally grows. 



Halved; one-sided, as if one half had 

 been cut away. 



Hastate; shaped like a halbert; lance- 

 olate, with a divergent lobe on each 

 side of the base. 



Head ; a dense roundish cluster of sessile 

 flowers. 



Heptandrous ; having 7 stamens. 



Herbaceous; green, or not scarious ; also 

 not woody; of a tender consistence, 

 and generally destructible by frost. 



Herbarium; a collection (systematically 

 arranged) of dried specimens of plants. 



Herbs; plants which are not woody, of 

 a more tender structure than trees and 

 shrubs. 



Heterogamous ; having dissimilar florets 

 (perfect and imperfect) in the same 

 head. 



Heterophyllous; having leaves of different 

 forms. 



Hexamerous ; consisting of 6 parts. 



Hexandrous ; having 6 stamens all of 

 equal length. 



Hilum ; the scar on a seed, at the point 

 of attachment to the funiculus, or seed 

 stalk. 



Hirsute; rough-haired; clothed with stif. 

 fish hairs. 



Hispid; bristly; beset with bristle-like 

 hairs. 



Hoary ; covered with a white, or greyish- 

 white, pubescence. 



Homogamous; all the florets of a head 

 being alike. 



lomotropous embryo ; when its direction 

 is the same as that of the seed. 



Horizontal ovules; when they project 

 from the side of the cell, pointing 

 neither to base nor apex. 



/ the mould, or soil, formed by 

 ecom position of organized matter. 



lyaline; transparent, like glass. 



fybrid ; a mule ; a cross between allied 

 species. 



ymenium ; the membrane containing 

 the spores of certain Fungi, & Lichens ; 

 the plates, or gills, on the under side 

 of ihepileus of the Agarics. 

 ypogaean; situated, growing, or re- 

 maining, under ground. 



Jypogynous ; inserted beneath the ovary, 

 i. e. on the receptacle, and free from 

 the surrounding organs. 



'fypothallus; the elementary state of Lich- 

 ens, in which the layers, are confused ; 



in Humus, 



