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GLOSSARY. 



Fastigiately-branched, branched in such a manner, 



the branches becoming gradually shorter from 



the base to the apex. 

 Fastigiately-corymbose, a corymb, whose branches 



gradually become shorter towards the top, like a 



pyramid. 

 Fauces, the jaws, the gaping part of monopetalous 



flowers. 

 Favose, pitted or excavated, like the cells of a 



honeycomb. 

 Favosely-scrobiculate, excavated in little pits or 



hollows. 



Feathery, resembling a feather. 

 Feather-nerved, the nerves disposed like the feathers 



of a pen. 



Febrifuge. ) ~ . , ^. ,. 



Febrifugal, } efficacious ln moderating fevers. 



Feculent, muddy, thick with sediment. 

 Fecundation, the act of making fruitful. 

 Ferruginous. ~\ . 

 Ferruginous, / "-on-coloured, rusty. 



Fibrillose, covered with little strings or fibres. 

 Fibrous, being composed of fibres. 

 Filamentose, thready. 

 Filiform, like a thread in form. 

 Fimbriate, fringed. 



Finger-parted, divided into lobes, having a fan- 

 ciful resemblance to the five fingers of a human 

 hand- 

 firm, hardish, firm, not soft. 

 Fistular, ~\ 



Fistuhui, > hollow, like a pipe. 

 Fistulose, ) 

 Flaccid, feeble, weak. 

 Flagellie, runners without leaves. 

 Flagellteform, form of runners, creeping along the 



ground. 

 Flat, plane. 

 Flexile, capable of being bent in different directions, 



pliable. 

 Fle.ruous, having a bent or undulating direction, 



zigzag. 

 F loccose, \ 

 t locky, ) 



Floccosely-tomentose, down disposed in little tufts. 

 Flocullosely-scabrous, covered with rough hairs in 



tufts. 



Floral, of or belonging to a flower, near the flower. 



Floral-envelopes, the calyx, bracteas, and corolla, 



which envelope the inner parts of the flower are 



all so called. 



Florets, little flowers, chiefly applied to composite 



and grasses. 



Floriferous, that which bears flowers. 

 Flosculous, compound flowers, consisting of many 



tubular monopetalous florets. 

 Foliaceous, having the form of leaves. 

 Foliate, when a leaf is divided into leaflets it is 

 called 1-2-3-10 or 12-foliate, according to the 

 number of leaflets. 

 Follicle, a particular kind of two-valved seed-vessel, 



such as those of Hakea and Paonia. 

 Follicular, resembling a follicle. 

 Footstalks, the stalks of leaves. 

 Fornicate, arched. 

 Foveate \ j d fu)1 f , ; , j 

 Foveolate,) r 



Foveolte, little pits or hollows. 

 Free, free from each other, not connected together, 

 usually applied to stamens ; the ovary or fruit is 

 said to be free when it neither adheres to the co- 

 rolla nor calyx. 



Fringed, having a border like a fringe. 

 Fringe-toothed, having a border toothed so as to 



appear fringed. 



Frond, the leaves of palms and ferns. 

 Front, in Aconitum, the front of the helmet or upper 



sepal. 



Frosted, covered with glittering particles. 

 Fructiferous, that which bears fruit. 

 Fructification, all those parts composing the fruit of 

 plants. 



r ruttcose, 



Fruticulose, a little shrub. 



Fugacious, that which lasts but for a short time. 



Fulcra, scales and stipulas, &c. 



Fulvous, tawny-yellow, or fox-coloured. 



Fungous, having the consistence of fungi or mush- 



rooms. 

 Funicle, a little stalk, by which the seed is attached 



to the placenta. 

 Furcate, forked. 



Furcately-divided, divided in a furcate manner. 

 Furfuraceous, scaly, mealy, scurfy. 

 Furrowed, having longitudinal channels or furrows. 

 Fuscous, blackish-brown. 

 Fusiform, spindle-shaped, like the root of a carrot. 



G. 



Galeate, helmeted ; the upper lip of a ringent co- 



rolla is the galea of that corolla. 

 Gamosepalous, when the sepals are joined together 



at the base, they are so called, improperly mono- 



sepalous. 



Gelatine, jelly, a term in chemistry. 

 Gelatinous, consisting of jelly. 

 Geminate, twin. 

 Gemma, leaf buds, as distinguished from alabastra 



or flower-buds. 

 Gemmiferous, bearing buds. 

 Genitals, styles and stamina. 

 Germ or Germen, the old name of the ovary. 

 Germen-inferior, fruit below the flower. 

 Germen-superior, fruit above the flower. 

 Germination, the first act of vegetation in a seed. 

 Gibbo, in Aconitum, the swelling of the tube of the 



petals or nectaries. 

 Gibbous, protuberant, swelled. 

 Gibbosity, a protuberance or swelling. 

 Girded, surrounding any thing. 

 Glabrous, smooth, destitute of hairs. 

 Gladiate, shaped like a short straight sword. 

 Glandular, having glands. 



Glandularly-crenated, \ having crenatures or serra- 

 Glandularly-serrated, ) tures tipped with glands. 

 Glandularly-muricated, covered with tubercles tipped 



with glands. 



Glandularly-pilose, covered with glandular hairs. 

 Glandularly-toothed, margins toothed, with the teeth 



bearing glands. 

 Glanduliferous, bearing glands. 

 Glaucescent, having something of a bluish-green, 



hoary, or sea-green appearance. 

 Glaucous, having a decided hoary-grey surface. 



Globose, 1 . i 



^,17 f round or spherical. 

 Globular, ) 



Globosely-elliptical, between spherical and oval. 

 Globosely-ovate, between spherical and egg-shaped. 

 Globulose, a diminutive of globose. 

 Glochidate, having hairs, the ends of which are split 



and hooked back. 

 Glomerate, ) ^-, , . ^ , , 



Gl t d t S atnere lnto round heaps or heads. 



Glumaceous, plants are said to be glumaceous when 



their flowers are like those of grasses. 

 Glume, a part of the floral envelopes of a grass. 

 Gluten, glue. 

 Glutinous,) dh ; , 

 Glutmose, ) ' 



Gomopetalous, improperly monopetalous. 

 Graniform, formed like grains of corn. 



Granuliferous, bearing grains. 



Greenish-glaucous, of a colour between grey and 



green. 



Gregarious, herding together. 



Grooved, furrowed, channelled, marked with grooves. 

 Grumose, clubbed, knotted, contracted at intervals 



into knots. 

 Gynandrous, having the stamens and style com- 



bined in one body. 



(?ynois,afleshyreceptacle, bearing separate fruits. 



Gynobasic, having a gynobase. 



Gynophore, a lengthened receptacle, bearing the 



petals, stamens, and pistil, but not the calyx. 

 Gynous, flowers are said to be 3-4-5-6-7, &c. 



gynous, when they contain so many styles. 

 Gyrose, turned round like a crook. 



H. 



Habit, features or general appearance of a plant. 

 Habitat, habitation, native country. 

 Hemorrhages, copious bleeding. 

 Hiemorrhoids, a kind of disease called the piles. 

 Hairy, covered with long hairs. 

 Hairy-canescent, covered with grey hairs. 

 Hairy-pubescent, covered with short soft hairs. 

 Hairy-tomentose, covered with dense, white, close, 



curled hairs. 



Hastate, formed like the head of a halbert. 

 Hastately-cordate, between halbert - shaped and 



heart-shaped. 



Hastately-kidney-sliaped, a form between halbert- 

 ' shaped and kidney-shaped. 

 Hastately-lanceolate, between halbert - shaped and 



lance-shaped. 

 Hastately-4-5-lobed, lobed in such a manner as still 



to appear somewhat halbert-shaped. 

 Hastately-2-eared, a leaf having two ears at the 



base, giving it the appearance of a halbert. 

 Haulm, dead stems of herbs. 

 Helmet, the same as Galea. See Galeate. The 



upper sepal in Aconitum. 

 Hemispherico-conical, a shape between a globe and 



a cone. 



Herbaceous, a plant the stem of which perishes an- 

 nually. 

 Hermaphrodite, a flower is so called when it consists 



both of male and female organs. 

 Hexagonal, six-sided. 

 Hexandrous, having six stamens. 

 Hibernaculum, any thing which serves as a protec- 

 tion to the young buds during winter. 

 .. ( the scar or mark on the seed which in- 

 , ' < dicates the place by which it adheres to 

 ^'" m '\ the placenta. 

 Hirsutely-tomentose, covered with dense, close, white 



hairs. 



Hispid, covered with stiff hairs. 

 Hispidly-ciliated, fringed with stiff hairs. 

 Hispidly-villous, covered with stiff villi. 

 Hoary, covered with grey or white down. 

 Hoary -pubescent, covered with white down, which is 



pressed to the surface. 

 Hoary-tomentose, covered with white tomentum ; 



which see. 



Hoary-velvety, covered with white velvety down. 

 Hoary-villous, covered with white villi. 

 Holosericeous, covered all over with silky down. 

 Hollow- leaf, form of a cowl, concave above. 

 Homogeneous, having a uniform nature, or principle, 



or composition. 



Honey-combed, having pits like a honeycomb. 

 Honey-pore, the pore in flowers which secretes 



honey. 

 Honey-scales, the scales in flowers which secrete 



honey. 



Hooded, being hollowed into the form of a hood. 

 Horn, any awl-shaped stiff process is called a horn. 

 Horny, hard, the consistence of a horn. 

 Hyaline, crystalline, transparent. 

 Hybrid, a mule, partaking of the nature of two 



species. 



Hydragogue, that which removes dropsy. 

 Hygrometrical, indicating the approach of moisture. 

 Hypocrateriform, salver-shaped. 

 liypogynous, situated below the ovarium. 

 Hypophyllous, situated under the leaf. 



