208 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 



Hastate, or Hostile, shaped like a halberd; furnished with a spreading lobe on each 



side at the base, 53. 

 Head, capitulum, a form of inflorescence. 74. 

 Heart-shaped, of the shape of a heart as painted on cards, 53. 

 Heart-wood, the older or matured wood of exogenous trees, 142. 

 Helicoid, coiled like a helix or snail-shell, 77. 

 Helmet, the upper sepal of Monkshood is so called. 

 Helvolous, grayish-yellow. 



Hemi- in compounds from the Greek, half; e. g. Hemispherical, &c. 

 Hemicarp, half-fruit, one carpel of an Umbelliferous plant, 121. 

 Hemitropous (ovule or seed), nearly same as amphitropous, 123. 

 Hepta- (in words of Greek origin), seven; as Heptagynous, with seven pistils or 



styles. Heptumerous, its parts in sevens. Heptandrous, having seven stamens. 

 Herb, plant not woody, at least above ground. 

 Herbaceous, of the texture of an herb; not woody, 39. 

 Herbarium, the botanist's arranged collection of dried plants, 186. 

 Herborization, 184. 



Hermaphrodite (flower), having stamens and pistils in the same blossom, 81. 

 Hesperidium, orange-fruit, a hard-rinded berry. 

 Hetero-, in Greek compounds, means of two or more sorts, as 

 Heterocarpous, bearing fruit of two kinds or shapes. 

 Heterogamous, bearing two or more sorts of flowers in one cluster. 

 Heterogony, Heterogone, or Heterogonous, with stamens and pistil reciprocally of 



two sorts, 116. Heterostyled is same. 

 Heteromorphous, of two or more shapes. 

 Heterophyllous, with two sorts of leaves. 

 Heterotropous (ovule), the same as amphitropovs, 123. 

 Hexa- (in Greek compounds), six; as Hexagonal, six-angled. Hexagynous, with 



six pistils or styles. Hexamerous, its parts in sixes. Hexandrous, with six 



stamens. Hexapterous, six-winged. 

 Hibernaculum, a winter bud. 

 Hiemal, relating to winter. 

 Hilar, belonging to the hilum. 



Hilum, the scar of the seed; its place of attachment, 110, 126. 

 Hippocrepiform, horseshoe-shaped. 

 Hirsute, clothed with stiffish or beard-like hairs. 

 Hirtellous, minutely hirsute. 



Hispid, bristly, beset with stiff hairs. Hispidulous, diminutive of hispid. 

 Histology, 9. 



Hoary, grayish-white ; see canescent, &c. 

 Holosericeous, all over sericeous or silky. 

 Homo-, in Greek compounds, all alike or of one sort. 

 Homodromous, running in one direction. 

 Homogamous, a head or cluster with flowers all of one kind. 

 Homogeneous, uniform in nature; all of one kind. 

 Homogone, or Hmogonous, counterpart of Heterogone or Homostyled. 

 Homologous, of same type; thus petals and sepals are the homologues of leaves. 

 Homomallous (leaves, &c), originating all round an axis, but all bent or curved 



to one side. 

 Homorphous, all of one shape. 



Homntropous (embryo), curved with the seed ; curved only one way. 

 Hood, same as helmet or galea. Hooded, hood-shaped; see cucullate. 

 Hooked, same as hamate. 



Horn, a spur or some similar appendage. Horny, of the texture of horn. 

 Hortensis, pertaining to the garden. 



Hortus Siccus, an herbarium, or collection of dried plants, 201. 

 Humifuse, Humistrate, spread over the surface of the ground. 

 Humilis, low in stature. 



