BOTANICAL TERMS. 



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Handbreadth, (palmus.) See Dodrans. 



Hand-shaped, (palmatus) resembling a human hand with the 



fingers expanded. 



Hastated, halbert-shaped, triangular. 

 Hat, (pileus) the top of mushrooms, &c. sometimes called 



the flap. 

 Heads, (capitatus) of flowers ; where flowers grow together 



in compact knobs. 

 Heart. See Corculum. 



Helmet, (galea) the upper part of a gaping blossom. 

 Hemispherical, in the shape of half a globe. 

 Heptandria, from eirra, seven ; and avi^p a husband : the se- 

 venth class in Linneus's Sexual System, consisting of 

 plants with hermaphrodite flowers, which have seven 

 stamina or male organs. 

 Herb, that portion of every vegetable which arises from the 



root, and is terminated by the fructification. 

 Herbacea, herbaceous plants, which perish down to the root 



every year. 

 Herbaceous stem, one that is succulent and tender, not hard 



and woody. 



Hermaphroditus, hermaphrodite ; a flower which contains 

 both the anthers and stigma, the organs of generation, 

 within the same calix and petals. 



Hexagynia, from ef, six ; and '/wrj, a woman : an order or 

 secondary division in the Sexual System, consisting of 

 plants which, besides their classic distinctions, have their 

 flowers furnished with six styles, or female organs. 

 Hexandria, from ef, six ; and uvyp, a husband : the name 

 of the sixth class of the Linne;m system, the plants of 

 which have hermaphrodite flowers, furnished with six 

 stamina, or male organs, of an equal length. 

 Hexagonous, hexagonal ; six-sided. 

 Hexapetalus, six petals. 

 Hexaphyllous, six-leaved. 

 Hians, open, in opposition to closed. 



Htlum, the external mark or scar of a seed, in the place where 

 it was fastened within the pericarpium, as in the bean, &c. 

 Hirsutus, strong-haired, shaggy. 

 Hirtum, hairy, clothed with soft hairs. 

 Hispid, bristly. 

 Hoary, (incanus) covered on one or both sides, with a very 



fine white silvery-looking substance. 

 Hollow, (cavus) as is a straw. 

 Hooded. See Cucullatus. 

 Hoof-shaped, (ungulatus.) 

 Hook, (hamus.) 



Horizontal, parallel to the ground. 

 Hunched. See Bulging. 

 Husk. See Glume. 



Hybernacalum, winter-quarters ; that part of a plant which 

 defends the bud from injuries during the severities of winter. 

 Hibrida, hybrid ; a monstrous production of two different 

 species of plants, analogous to a mule among animals : 

 the seed of hybrid plants will not propagate. 

 Hypocrateriformis, salver-shaped. 



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Jagged, leaves divided into lobes, which are again subdivid- 

 ed in an irregular manner. 



Icosandrist, from ftKoai, twenty ; and uvijp, a husband : the 

 twelfth class of the Linnean stem, consisting of plants 

 with hermaphrodite flowers, furnished with twenty or 

 more stamina, that are inserted into the inner side of the 

 calix, or petals, or both. 

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Imberbis, beardless. 



Imbricate, (imbricatus.) 



Imbricatus, indented. 



Imperfect Jlowers, wanting either pistil or anther, or both. 



Inecqualis, unequal. 



Inanis, pithy. 



Incanus, hoary. 



Incisus, cut or jagged ; snipt. 



Inclinans, leaning. 



Includens, enclosing. 



Incompletus, incomplete. 



Incrassatus, thickest upwards. 



Incurvatus, bowed inwards. 



Indented, hollowed, deeply scolloped. 



Indivisum, leaf undivided. 



Inermis, unarmed. 



Inferus, beneath. Inferior, is applied principally to the 

 germen when it is placed below the cup. 



Inflated, distended like a bladder. 



Inflexus, bent inwards. 



Infloresr.e.ntia, a mode of flowering ; the manner in which 

 flowers are supported on their foot-stalks. 



Integrum, undivided. 



Intorsio, twisting. 



Intrafoliaceous, within the leaves. 



Involucrum, rolled up ; a species of calix, restricted by Lin- 

 neus to umbelliferous flowers. See Umbella. 



Involutus, (involute) rolled inwards. 



Joint, (articulus.) 



Jointed, (articulatus) stem, as in a wheat straw. 



Irregularis, an irregular flower, which wants uniformity : 

 the term generally applies to the petals. 



Juga, pairs ; bi-juga, two pairs ; tri-juga, three pairs : ap- 

 plied to the leaflets of a compound leaf. 



Keel, (carina) a name given to the lowermost petal in a 



butterfly-shaped blossom, from its supposed resemblance 



to the keel of a ship. 



Keeled, (carinatus) bent like the keel of a ship or boat. 

 Kidney -shaped, (reniforme) as the seed of the French bean. 

 Knee-jointed, (geniculatus) when a straw or stem is a little 



bent at the joints. 

 Knob, a head. See Capitulum. 

 Knot, (nodus) a joint ; remarkable in the stems or straws 



of (the grasses and reeds.) 



Lnbiatus, (labiate) a flower having lips. 



Labium. See Lip 



Lacerus, ragged. 



Lacinia, segments. 



Laciniatum, cut, or as it were torn. 



Lactesccntia, producing milk ; a term applied to the juices 



or liquors, of whatever colour, which flow out of plants 



when any injury is done to them. 

 Lacunosum, pitted. 

 L<Evis, level, smooth. 

 Lamella, gills. 

 Lamina, a thin plate or border ; the upper spreading part 



of a flower, consisting of more than one petal. 

 Lana, wool : a kind of down or velvet, which serves as a 



veil to screen the leaves and branches, which are covered 



with it from the extremities of heat. 

 Lanatus, woolly. 



