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Oladiate, sword-shaped, as the leave* 01 Iris. 



Glands, Bmall cellular organs which secrete oily or aromatic or other products; they 



are - etimes Mink in tin leaves 01 rind, as in the Orange, Prickly Ash, &< 



sometimes on the Burface as small projections; sometime* raised on hairs or 

 bristles (glandular hairs, <)<■), as in the Sweetbrier and Sundew. Tin name is 

 also given to any small Bwellings, &c, whethei they secrete anything or not; so 

 thai the word is loosely used. 



Glandular, Glandulvse, furnished with glands, or gland-like. 



Giant (Gland), the acorn 01 mast ol I >ak and similar fruits. 



Glareose, growing in gravel. 



Glaucttcent, slightly glaucous, or bluish-gray. 



Glaucous, covered with a bloom, vi/.. with a iin<' white powder of wax that rubs off, 



like that on a fiesh plum, or a cabbage-leaf. 

 Globose, Bpherical in form, or nearly so. Globular, nearly globose. 

 Glochidiate, or Glochideous, (bristles) barbed; tipped with barbs, or with a double 



hooked point. 



Glomerate, closely aggregated into a dense cluster. 

 Glomerule, a dense head-like cluster, 77. 



Glossology, the department of botany in which technical terms are explained. 



Glumaceuus, glume-like, or glume- bearing. 



Glumt ; Glumes are the husks or floral coverings of Grasses, or, particularly, the 



outer husks or bracts of each spikelet. 

 Glumelles, the inner husks of Grasses. 

 Gonophore, a stipe below stamens, 113. 

 Gossypine, cottony, flocculent. 

 Gracilis, Latin for slender. 

 Grain, see Caryopsis, 121. 

 Gramineous, grass-like. 



Granular, composed of grains. Granule, a small grain. 

 Graveolent, heavy-scented. 

 Griseous, gray or bluish-gray. 

 Growth, 129." 

 Grumous, or Grumose, formed of coarse clustered grains. 



(j'uttate, spotted, as if by drops of something colored. 

 Gymms, (ireek for naked, as 



Gymnocarpous, naked-fruited. Gymnospermous, naked-seeded, 109. 



Gymnospermous gynoscium, 109. 



Gymnospt rmos, or Gymnospermous Plants, 18-3. 



Gynandrous, with Btamens borne on, i.e. united with, the pistil, 99. 



Gynacium, a name for the pistils of a flower taken altogether, 105. 



Gynobase, a depressed receptacle or support of the pistil or carpels, 114. 



Gynophore, a stalk raising a pistil above the stamens, lb!. 



Gynosteyium, a sheath around pistils, of whatever nature. 



Gynostemium, name of the column in Orchids, JCC., consisting of style and stigma 



with stamens combined. 

 Gyrate, coiled or moving circularly. 

 • , Btrongly bent to and fro. 



Habit, the general aspeel of a plant, or its mode of growth. 



Habitat, th.- situation or country in which a plant grows in a wild state. 



Hairs, hair-like growths on the surface of plants. 



//airy, beset with hair-, especially longish ones 



Halberd-shaped, see hastate, ■<■'•. 



Hire/, when appearing a- if one half of the body were cut away. 

 Hamate, or Hamost, hooked ; tin- end of a Blender body bent round. 



Hamutost . bearing 1 small book : ■ diminutive of the last. 



Haplo-, in (ireek compounds, single; as Hapto st e mo nous, liaving only one series of 



stamens. 



